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[silverthunder]

For anyone who might have some vague glimor of hope that LJ is actually trying to do the right thing in all their stupidity, I'd like to direct your attention to this.

So, in summary, it is okay to encourage girls to starve themselves but not okay to post pictures/fiction of imaginary people who may or may not be underage having sex.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture?

NOTE: I don't necessarily support this user's methods - I'm just commenting on LJ's hypocricy.

Comments

[silverthunder]

You're probably right, although I don't know this user's history.

I don't personally think LJ is that willing to hear us. I think they're listening, but they're being very selective in what they're actually *hearing* (or are acknowledging that they're hearing).

[third-requiem.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I don't either, but what she's doing feels more like a witch hunt than was LJ did (but I am not condoning their actions either).

I think...there's a severe disconnect between what users expect out of LJ (especially fandom; we tend towards the privileged side of the spectrum) and what LJ is willing/can do. LJ is, first and foremost, a business. They have to do their business-y things and that will sometimes mean catering more to corporate sponsors than the users because, yeah, those corporate sponsors are probably making a lot of things that we take for granted possible.

That's not to say that the users are just a side project; just that we aren't as high up on their list as we assume. And for fandom, since we chose to make LJ our homebase, I think we have this feeling that LJ owes us something. BECAUSE we chose LJ over any other blog resource, BECAUSE we spend money on icons, BECAUSE we've made LJ big (that last one I don't think is actually true, but try telling fandom that).

Haha...I'm coming off as really cynical. And maybe I am. I'm pissed at LJ and I'm pissed at fandom. Sooner or later, I just might decide to take my toys out of both sandboxes and play in the ocean.