LJ Strike

[inaki]

Okay ganked this from perro because it pretty much sums up my feelings.


LiveJournal is a service. I pay for said service.

I feel I utilize this service more than enough to legitimize paying a very minimal yearly fee. I think any regular poster should realize how effective this medium is towards meeting and maintaining relationships with others. If that's important to you then stop being a tightwad and help this business provide you with a venue you have grown to utilize often and appreciate.

Do I think the way they handled themselves was kosher? Probably not. But I think this "strike" is a farce. LiveJournal is a business. There's capital to build, upkeep involved and staff to be paid. I consider this current unrest the equivalent to the days following a con: some people are immensely grateful; others bitch and moan about this and that and never realize how much blood, sweat and tears are involved in the production of this service patrons all gobble down and enjoy.

So before you cry bloody murder please take a good look at your LJ usage and try and think how your communication with others would be different without it.

:)

Comments

[perro.livejournal.com]

Bitch pay for the services you just ganked! ;)

[baja-hyena.livejournal.com]

I agree. I have a lifetime account. I don't understand why people think it's BAD for a business to make money? Do they think that systems, storage, admin, advertising, ect is free as well? I see people get the same ideas with software...that it should all be free...just pirate it. How long do they think that "indispensable" program will around without some funding? If one uses a service, they should give some monetary value to it and support it.

[inaki.livejournal.com]

© Jax

[sleepydragon01.livejournal.com]

I have to agree, it's dirt cheap ($25 a year i think) so people can't really complain about it. It's $2 a month, deal with it or find another place to do it. There are millions of people on here, the bandwidth/storage/coding for all of that isn't free ;).

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

It's not a strike anyway because they're not getting paid to blog. It's a boycott. And if they're only doing this for one day, it's not even that; it's a symbolic protest at best.

[armaina.livejournal.com]

Really, my only problem was with the censoring interests, honestly, I was kinda 'meh' about the no more basic account thing. People forget how expensive servers are to keep up and maintain. honestly, it's cheap for a year with no adds, not to mention all the extras.

[tixen.livejournal.com]

There are some legitimate reasons for this, however.

The new owners put this into effect without consulting their own board members- the guy who started the site, and his business partner.
http://brad.livejournal.com/2368071.html
http://danahboyd.livejournal.com/1396.html

For that reason, I support the ideas behind the strike, though I feel the strike in and of itself is a rather futile attempt to prove a point.

[amethe.livejournal.com]

They're only doing it for a day because they can't stand to be without their dramablogs for longer. It's a self-gratification, kind of like Lent. They put themselves through misery for a day so they feel better later.

[kryphos.livejournal.com]

I realize how much blood and sweat and tears went into some cons that I've been to only to have them still suck. People who make good cons/products work hard like the ones who make bad cons/products. Sometimes one will work harder than the other, but no matter how hard they worked, there was either something good or something that sucked.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Look, I've denied them as much money - to the point of not paying them a bloody thing - because of their choices.

What more can I do? They refuse to offer me the service I was paying for.

Leaving means losing all the content that I've built here - connections more than entries - so the strike is useful in that.