Soapbox moment
Feb. 6th, 2003 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeDue to the recent LJ executive decision to limit posts, I've seen a few comments on my friends' pages concerning this, and I'm glad to see that they've all been very reasonable responses.
I for one agree with the decision, and not just because I have a permanent account and can afford to sit on my high horse and throw mud at the populace who can't afford a paid account.
As I mentioned, I've been going back over my old entries to make them "friends-only", and I've boggled at the amount of entries I made that I might as well not have posted, especially one-liners that have lost most if not all of their relevance.
I know that, since at the time I was a free user, I probably would have "benefitted" from a limit on the number of posts I made per day. My maximum number of posts in a given day is (I think) seven, and that was a day with three one-liners. Nowadays I tend to edit entries if I have one sentence to add, and I'm sure I would have started doing that a lot earlier if I had been prodded slightly.
It sounds to me also as though the folks on LJ are not being unreasonable about this. They have agreed to allow a slightly higher number of posts for free users according to what their numbers look like after a few days.
Some politely-worded requests, maybe along with thanks for offering such a good service, would probably ellicit a good response if you really, truly, profoundly feel that the policies need changing. Don't bother flaming the LJ people: they don't owe you anything for offering you a free service.
I for one agree with the decision, and not just because I have a permanent account and can afford to sit on my high horse and throw mud at the populace who can't afford a paid account.
As I mentioned, I've been going back over my old entries to make them "friends-only", and I've boggled at the amount of entries I made that I might as well not have posted, especially one-liners that have lost most if not all of their relevance.
I know that, since at the time I was a free user, I probably would have "benefitted" from a limit on the number of posts I made per day. My maximum number of posts in a given day is (I think) seven, and that was a day with three one-liners. Nowadays I tend to edit entries if I have one sentence to add, and I'm sure I would have started doing that a lot earlier if I had been prodded slightly.
It sounds to me also as though the folks on LJ are not being unreasonable about this. They have agreed to allow a slightly higher number of posts for free users according to what their numbers look like after a few days.
Some politely-worded requests, maybe along with thanks for offering such a good service, would probably ellicit a good response if you really, truly, profoundly feel that the policies need changing. Don't bother flaming the LJ people: they don't owe you anything for offering you a free service.
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Date: 2003-02-06 11:09 am (UTC)