Best post on the LJ strike/boycott/wankfest/whatever-they're-calling-it-today I've seen yet

[triadruid]

http://tafkae.livejournal.com/186859.html

For the record, I'm more prone at this point to leave LJ due to the whining than SUP's poor communication and lax customer service. Not sure either is 'likely', but...

The loss of Basic accounts is vaguely irritating, but really: Invite Codes. Anybody remember those?

Comments

[berkie.livejournal.com]

I do remember Invite Codes, it's how I got on here. Ah, the good ol' days.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I might have had to use one, too; they were on-again, off-again when I joined back in 2003.

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Me too. I even remember who I got mine from.

TOS

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I see is more as a matter of how they treat their users. Yes, the terms of service say they can do what they want; any service with good lawyers has TOS claiming as many rights for themselves as they think they can get away with, just in case. That just means that they're OK legally.

But being OK legally doesn't mean they're OK ethically or OK in customer satisfaction. If the restaurant where I go for lunch starts being rude to me all the time, or keeps taking the items I like off the menu, they've done nothing wrong legally. But that doesn't mean I'm obligated not to complain to the management or just go ahead and take my business somewhere that seems to care more about their customers.

Of course, if the reason I go to that restaurant in the first place is that it's where my friends go too, and they go because their other friends do (and their friends...), it's harder to take my business elsewhere without all my friends and their friends (and their friends....) doing the same.

I do admit that the idea of a blogger's strike is a bit silly, since there's not exactly a short supply of bloggers. And I'm likely to participate only because it's not going to hurt me, which is of course not the case with a real strike. It's not even likely to make a difference. In a way I see it as an experiment in network effects.

Re: TOS

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not disputing people's rights to be upset with the service they receive. But all a one-day refusal to blog does, as far as I can tell, is decrease SUP's expenses for bandwidth and memory for that day, and maybe touch on their ad revenue, but I doubt it, since these people are mostly opposed to clicking on ads to begin with.

I'm conflicted. I'm not really satisfied with LJ anymore, for a multitude of reasons (only a handful of which actually have to do with 6A/SUP), but as you say, with everyone else still here, it becomes more difficult to leave. I was never a big poster anyway, though, more of a commenter...

Remember invite codes?

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Hell, I had to re-implement them for Scribblit. Luckily LJ didn't pull the invite-generating code out....

Re: Remember invite codes?

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Okay, that's funny. ;)