Feh.

[elisi]

OK, first of all? I'm staying. (See this comment.) Not that I was ever going to leave, even though running around friending people on GJ is fun. (But GJ is ugly. And has adverts. And everything just looks wrong.)

Aaaanyway, if you haven't already, please go join fandom_counts! (22000 members so far. Spread the news to the furthest corners of fandom, please!)

bookshop has a great post here about the fandom voice and what we can do.

liz_marcs still has lots of links.

Also lots and lots of info in this post by catrinella.

Re. Warriors for Innocence please read this post (warning: bad for blood pressure!)

Oh and there's a list of deleted comms and journals here.

Apparently Six Apart have in the past shown themselves to be 'socially backward'. Well I guess they really went and proved it this time. LJ however has usually been good at PR and such. Woe.


*takes deep breath*

OK, now I'm going to go concentrate on my children and such RL concerns, and when I have spare time will polish off some schmoopy Spuffy and a few Spike: Asylum ficlets.

Comments

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

GJ isn't ugly - you can make it look exactly like LJ and, in fact, some things are much easier there. It took me ten seconds to add my GJ banner - just paste in the url of the image - as opposed to about fifteen minutes fiddling around with styles and sizes and placements on LJ.

And it doesn't have adds in the journal pages or the user info any more. The few adds on the public pages are just text and they're not exactly obtrusive.

[elisi]

you can make it look exactly like LJ
You can make it blue?

And it doesn't have adds in the journal pages or the user info any more.
Well *my* user info does. (A giant big scrolling Nokia one no less! A pox on all adverts.)

Anyway, it appears that LJ/6A have finally decided to talk to us. At least they apologise and know they screwed up. *sigh*

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I have made it blue. Or at least the pale duck-egg blue that was the colour of the underside of Spitfires in the Battle of Britain.

It suddenly occurred to me that it might be Firefox stopping me seeing adverts and so I dredged up IE7 from the unused programs (rather like stepping back in time 5 years, even though it's only months old!) and went back to GJ. Yes, it must have been Firefox, as there are adverts. But I only saw 2 small text-only ads for financial services and they were not obtrusive. No big Nokia one.

[elisi]

I have made it blue.
And v. pretty it is too. But I meant the basic colour.

It suddenly occurred to me that it might be Firefox stopping me seeing adverts
Long time Firefox user here too, and sadly the adverts are v. much in evidence. Nevermind, I won't be staying long.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

GJ is ugly. And has adverts.
Nods. The adverts weren't evident when I joined up years ago.

And everything just looks wrong.
Nods again. And I keep getting unsolicited invites.

[elisi]

The adverts weren't evident when I joined up years ago.
I don't remember them either.

And I keep getting unsolicited invites.
Really? I've escaped that so far! *crosses fingers*

GJ is like being on holiday - it's kinda fun, but things just look *different* and the food is really odd.

[shapinglight]

One thing that's really bothered me about all this is that the Wankers For Ignorant Prejudice person said in answer to an email sent to them that until now she/he had never heard of fandom. Well, she/he has now.

[elisi]

that until now she/he had never heard of fandom
Too busy with throwing out immigrants and destroying free speech for 'the sake of the children' probably! Meh.

[shapinglight]

One can always hope so.

Re the post at darker_christian

[ladycat713.livejournal.com]

What the heck is neo-confederacy and why would anybody want one in the first place? I thought everyone agreed the first one was a massively bad idea.

This seriously creeps me out.Especially since I live in the middle of redneck country. *shudder*

Re: Re the post at darker_christian

[elisi]

This seriously creeps me out.
Indeed. Freedom of speech? Who needs it. Lets all just go back to living in the middle ages... (They're all alike. This group probably has more in common with hard-line muslims than us!)