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Mar. 21st, 2008

  • 5:51 PM
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Only reason I haven't posted anything today is that there isn't really anything newsworthy going on.

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[info]cork_dork wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 01:43 am (UTC)
You mean you're not participating in a protest where people who aren't paying for something bitch about not getting it for free any more, and do so by costing the people who were giving it to them less?

How weird of you.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 07:39 am (UTC)
Hah. Exactly. I loled when I saw your economic analysis earlier today -- it's dead-to-rights.
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[info]budclare wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:09 pm (UTC)
I'm still terribly amused that people are complaining about not being able to get free accounts anymore even though the plus accounts are, you know, free. It's like they're begging me to laugh at them.
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[info]cork_dork wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:30 pm (UTC)
Yeah. I mean, LJ's TOS under Brad (waaaay back when) included "no advertising," but the company has been transferred, what, twice since then? Honestly, if they said "either pay, or deal with ads," to those of us with free accounts (free-free, not plus-free)... well, we're not paying for it, so why should we have any license to bitch?

And, for that matter, I find it terribly amusing that the "protest," (and I use the term loosely) involves taking the one resource that users do have under their control, and making sure that LJ uses less of it. Were I in charge of protesting something like this, I'd probably distribute a piece of software that systematically posts the entirety of, say, Project Gutenburg's texts to a journal (perhaps, for added lolz, have it scan a single author in Gutenburg to post in their style, Markov-chain style, so that each post will be different.). Multiply that by, say, 50,000 users, and you've got a pretty decent DDOS, not to mention the storage space it'd take up!
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[info]budclare wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:42 pm (UTC)
Then I think that we're all glad that you're not in charge of the protest, as your way would be sleazy, unethical, and pointless, whereas the day of silence was merely pointless.
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[info]cork_dork wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:57 pm (UTC)
Lol exactly. Although, my way would get more of a response (and, in honesty, I don't endorse people using resources for that sort of behavior; it's just an example of something that would get a response).

Probably a better protest would be paying users refusing to re-up, and plus-free users encouraging people not to click on ads. Directly effecting the revenue stream, rather than indirectly doing so.

Still, it's one of those "you're complaining about something you get for free?" things.
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 07:37 pm (UTC)
I remember several years ago there was some sort of "maximum posts per day" quota instantiated, with different values for each type of journal. Dunno whether that's still around, or whether there's a maximum post size (though in practice, "maximum post size" is probably limited by whatever datatype they're using on the backend to contain posts; it's just MySQL back there, after all).

Just woke up and haven't had my Red Bull yet, so I haven't looked in the FAQ yet. (Nor do I really care enough to look it up; none of this has ever impacted my usage patterns, and frankly, neither does this protest, and I am embracing my inherent selfishness.)
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[info]enochsmiles wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 05:52 am (UTC)
You mean, nothing on top of the status quo yesterday? Or are simply being sarcastic? Or, rather, what's your definition of newsworthy?
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 07:38 am (UTC)
My most significant achievements today have been reading some papers, making notes on some code I'm going to modify, and trimming the cats' nails. Nothing I've read today has been particularly thought-provoking or lulzworthy, so all in all it doesn't really seem like the subject matter for an especially gripping post.

But it seems to be "LJ's owners are evil because..." day today, and as [info]cork_dork mentioned above, there is some sort of ill-thought-out "strike" going on. Which I am not participating in, obviously.
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[info]neoliminal wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 07:20 pm (UTC)
Feel free to ask for a poem if you are bored.

http://neoliminal.livejournal.com/91305.html
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[info]maradydd wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 07:41 pm (UTC)
Done, thanks!

(I'm too busy to be bored, but I find my day-to-day work is often too dull to really post about.)
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[info]sinchina wrote:
Mar. 22nd, 2008 05:55 am (UTC)
Heh, me too. Though I posted many comments yesterday morning before I even noticed someone's post about this silly strike, drastically different time zone and all. :)
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