*head.hit.keyboard*

[aesc]

Oh, SixApart, you're dumber than a bag of hammers.

Really you are.

(I'm aesc on GreatestJournal, by the way.)

I wish I could be of more use in helping with Fanarchive, but I have no coding, legal expertise, or money. Maybe I could use my amazing Make Everything Be The Way I Want It To Be powers. *sigh*

Comments

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

I have added you on GJ!

This is just screwed up.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

This is just screwed up.

In many, many senses of the word, yes.

*employs SMITE button again*

[desertport]

I checked out the link, but I'm not seeing it. What has 6A done now?

(The safety tips, maybe?)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Sorry :> I posted the link to the lj-news post I commented to.

LJ/6A is on one of its nonsensical campaigns again, only this time they're deleting and banning HP fanart people (http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/159327.html).

I seriously think that for the stupidity alone fandom should pull stakes and leave.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

See? The anger makes me incapable of code :>

[insight2.livejournal.com]

*clings to you*

I'm on LJ mainly for the people, if enough people move, I'll move too.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*clings back*

I could really go for a magic wand right about now :/ Or, barring that, an actual smite button of my own.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I'm on GJ, too, and will add you there ASAP. As I write mainly gen and PG-rated fic and never post any fanart at all, I will be safe, but fandom won't be much fun around here alone, if push comes to shove and everyone migrates elsewhere...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

but fandom won't be much fun around here alone, if push comes to shove and everyone migrates elsewhere...

I hear you. I come for the show (or the book or movie) but stay for the people, and the way LJ seems determined to screw around with my community and my friends... GRRRRR! It makes me mad.

[summertea.livejournal.com]

it's vaguely understandable as to why the two artists were suspended, but getting rid of the strikethrough is the worst possible PR move possible, user-wise.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

but getting rid of the strikethrough is the worst possible PR move possible, user-wise.

I found that entertaining in a "Oh my God, are they pathetic" kind of way. Bag of hammers.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

I'm not going anywhere - and this is pretty much why: http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/147625.html

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm staying right here--GJ is mostly a way to keep track of people in case something happens. Mostly I'm infuriated because stuff like this impinges on my community and my space, and I really hate that.

[let-fate-decide.livejournal.com]

...I love that icon. *stares* GUH.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Check out discolore :)

[let-fate-decide.livejournal.com]

I agree completely with the linked post. Completely.

While LJ may piss me off sometimes, what with all the recent wank, fandom-wise and banning/suspending-wise, I love it here. I'm too at home to even consider leaving. Personally, I think some people are just.. overreacting and trying to make a scene. (I don't mean you, just in general.)

Sure, if someday I get pissed off enough (mainly if LJ starts attacking SGA, though I can see no reason why they would), I may create a GJ, or some other journal, as a backup. But I'm good for the moment, and I definitely don't feel like I need to do such a thing. I've got all my fiction backed-up on my website, and I know it's safe there.

*shrug* maybe it's 'cause I really don't care about HP :X and I don't like Harry/Snape, but that doesn't matter at all in this case.

[lilithilien.livejournal.com]

I feel so sickened by this news.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It's definitely made me cranky X>

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

I'm stubbornly sticking to LJ, as much as I'm frothing-at-the-mouth angry about these issues right now. I feel that these problems will follow us anywhere, and if there is an exodus to GJ or IJ or JF or any of the other services, the freedom will only be temporary. I suppose I'm sticking around to fight.

That said, I am the_acrobat on GJ; I created the account mainly to keep up with friends if there *is* an exodus, and I might start using Semagic to post across lj-clones (word is you can do that) if enough people go. Which, I suppose, weakens my political position significantly. But this is my community they're messing with.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I feel that these problems will follow us anywhere, and if there is an exodus to GJ or IJ or JF or any of the other services, the freedom will only be temporary.

There's something depressingly Foucauldian about the situation with LJ, and what GJ/IJ/other LJ clones will eventually become. And, that said, that's mostly what my GJ account is for at the moment, though I'm sure any fannish diaspora will take people to various corners of the internets.

Which, I suppose, weakens my political position significantly. But this is my community they're messing with.

That's exactly it, and beyond what happened to the artists, is what makes me really mad. The whole strikethrough thing, while it vexed me as an issue of private-sphere censorship (and really, there's nothing you can do about a private company decreeing what you can/can't do in its space), really made me angry with the way it screwed around with my community and my friends. I don't take kindly to that sort of thing.

[seleneheart]

Friended ya over there. Going through and trying to get everyone I have friended here.

[aurora]

:(( :((

I'm bummed, because with every new scandal, more and more folks think of leaving and one of these days they're actually going to move to somewhere else. I like it here, dammit. *shakes fist at LJ*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

That's what pisses me off, really. I mean, I'm angry with LJ/6A for being waffling asshats, but mostly I'm mad because this all screwing with my people.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm staying for now because I don't like the feeling of being run out of my house. Grrr. But I've had a GJ for ages; I added you. :)