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this one got pretty long.
It's been a weird day, full of pain-fueled pseudo-fever-dreams about fandom. Every few hours I'd wake up, stagger to the computer, read comments until I couldn't do it anymore, and then stagger back to...
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Posted this in comments
When I wasn't sure if everyone could post here hee.SUGGESTIONS VERY WELCOME, AGAIN!This is a suggestion for posts to help gather other fandoms who might not feel affected by these events.Hello...Before...
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LJ has suspended the account of thamiris a fandomer with a permanent account, who was just recently deceased. You may still view her account.*post edit* I was pointed to this article, which mentions...
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New Report Abuse button
It seems that we hurt their feelings by mocking their Report Abuse button, so they made NEW ONE:"ETA: It seems that this isn't 'new' button, it's just general button, that covers all 'crimes'. 'Old'...
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Go Team Fandom!
I was away from the computer most of the day and am only now back and trying to get caught up. A few quick things, and then I swear I'm going to be answering comments and sending e-mail to those of you...
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Guys? Srsly. No memes. No icons. No ads. No spam. No cat macros. (Well, maybe in the comments.)ETA: Going moderated.
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Reach out to More People
Someone in the news posts mentioned an LJ friend of theres who had no CLUE anything was going on at all.This is a concern, because that means no everyone who could potentially help with both the...
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apologies for the lack of ticky boxes.
Happy Monday, fandom. Old business: squeaky19, the owner of InsaneJournal, has shown up here to categorically deny that his site has anything to do with Six Apart. In case anyone was still...
View ArticlePassive Aggressive Stop-gap Measure
Not sure if anyone has thought of this yet, but if we all were to consume the full amount of our services provided by our paid LJ accounts, we could potentially cost them some serious money.Iāve been...
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age restrictions
Man, I had a great time today reading all the comments in the features post. There's a lot of really good stuff there. Some of it's completely insane, and some of is likely far too server-intensive to...
View ArticleMaking the migration... slowly - help?
The bane of the Mac user's LJ life is the number of reasonably decent posting clients that are out there that eventually develop bugs, but are no longer developed. I've been through XJournal, iJournal,...
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The current unpleasantness has hit CNET again. This comm is linked at the bottom. And, see, what happens when I post and then go to bed is that I wake up to 150 comments that I've only been able to...
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Article 12
For Everyone, (from fandom_action):This all began with 6A/Livejournal's lack of reliability when it comes to the TOS. This is the open letter to Livejournal and Six Apart by bubble_blunder requesting...
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Copy/pasted:Illegal and Harmful Content Policy ClarificationsWe are sorry it has taken so long to address the concerned community members. From reading the recent comments there's a lot of...
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Official statements in the lj_biz post (title taken from the post with the...
Hi everyone! I just wanted to send you over to this post, in which the lovely user aura218 compiled a nifty list of all official statements from LJ staffers on the most recent post on lj_biz.On a...
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I just want to make sure everyone has seen this buried subthread
We report child pornography to the NCMEC, as required by law.Scroll down to markf's reply in particular. It's heavily implied that ponderosa121 and elaboration were reported to the National Center for...
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news
Man, I really really wanted to have the Features Post of Doom up, but I'm still compiling. Yesterday I sat in a bar for three hours after work and made notes. Nineteen pages of them. *grin* If we can...
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finally, the post of doom!
Results of the Request Post of Doom, plus comments from the other journals and from e-mails, under the cut. Sorry it took me so long. It's kind of huge, and I'm ill today. Note that something's...
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I'd set up a number of syndicated feeds on InsaneJournal to LJ communities, and for some reason the newsletters were all not coming through whereas other communities were (usually quite quickly). I put...
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"The User as Citizen"
Taken from robin_anne_reidĀ : "User Generated Content"& Ownership: The User as Citizen.This is a great post, and I suggest everyone read it. Many of the issues we've discussed here are also brought...
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