mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Vodka gods)
There is NO escaping the Internet Drama.

I think what stung most was the implication that I don't care about what I'm doing, from someone from whom I never would have expected such an accusation.

Too bad. This too shall pass, and it's minor in the grand scheme of things. It just goes to show, again, that people we know IRL aren't immune to drama (I've been on both sides of the Drama fence, after all).
mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Overtime Fairy)
Halifax was awesome. It truly deserves its own update, but I didn't get around to doing that and now I have no time. Perhaps I shall manage one this weekend.

The Overtime Fairy has visited again. I've been called in for overtime today and tomorrow, thus canceling two days of my vacation. Boo. I'm also looking at an eighty hour week starting Saturday morning. Whee. My vacation bank is currently full, which means -woe!- that I shall have to be paid for my work. Paid! Oh, the anguish! *cough* Yeah,

I will not be participating in the LJ strike. Once again, I am highly unimpressed by the drama, and have no personal reason to be dissatisfied with the service I have received from the people who are currently running LJ. I have always received the service for which I paid, and there's an end to it. Many people have written more eloquently than I on this topic, and I'm not going to contribute more than this paragraph to the mountains of verbiage out there.
mousme: A text icon in black text on yellow that reads The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote (Avalanche)
Everyone and their cousin has posted about this, and many of them more eloquently than I. I simply state for the record that Strikethrough 2007, as it's been dubbed, is yet another example of several things that have been wrong with LJ for many years:

1- Letting hysterical vigilantes dictate what is and isn't appropriate LiveJournal content. (I refer you back to the Great Breastfeeding Icon Debacle of 2006)

2- Overreacting to the aforementioned hysterical vigilantes' concerns by mass-deleting/banning journals and communities without so much as a case-by-case review process in place.

3- Failing to communicate a) to the people directly affected by the change in policy, and b) to the LiveJournal Community in general.

Doubtless this, too, will blow over, like every single other LiveJournal Drama that has occurred over the past few years. I, for one, don't plan on going anywhere. Still, I find it sad that the LiveJournal and Six Apart staff are consistently caving in to special-interests groups and others who have very specific and destructive agendas. I deplore the lack of basic customer service, which would dictate that they at the very least post an announcement detailing their actions and the reasoning behind them.

Their silence on this topic, and all others like it, speaks volumes.

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