my response to LJ

[rm]

http://news.livejournal.com/98960.html?view=45548432#t45548432

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[photograficnerd.livejournal.com]

*claps*

Hear hear!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I am going to delete this comment, only because they are following links to their site back and targetting those journals. However, scroll down a couple of posts from me -- there's a link to one from a_hollow_year that explains everything.

Hope things are okay or getting better on your end.

[schmidtybooger.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe they didn't warn people and haven't responded to the outcry from angry paid users.
It's just ridiculous! I'm so pissed I renewed my subscription not too long ago.

[lakme.livejournal.com]

I don't quite get it.

I kicked up a stink a few months ago to LJ about a journal I randomly ran across (that was clearly a journal used only for troll purposes) that had a public post containing violent photographic pornography and cartoon child pornography as its single public entry. Actually POSTING child porn, cartoon or not, means that you lose automatically in my mind. But the response I got was lukewarm about it-they deleted the journal, but stated it was because the journal was largely created to cause trouble.

And now the Harry Potter fandom is under fire? I don't get it.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand why journals featuring pretend illegal activities are deleted while things like, say, pro-ana communities (wherein people are being encouraged - including minors - to hurt themselves) are given a pass.

The law truly is a ass, as Dickens said.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lj_sucks_/]

In the past we've had trolls post other people's AIDS status to mock them and have no action taken, while people who post public information have been terminated. (Not just me, it's happened several times.)

It's basically up to the (anonymous) person handling each complaint to decide whether they feel like doing something or not. And once the decision is made, the apparent First Commandment is "never admit a mistake". Hence there's no consistency at all in LJ TOS enforcement.

None of this is news, and nobody should have been surprised by LJ's actions. I guess everyone was just assuming that the Abuse team's asshattedness wouldn't affect *their* journals.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Hm. A response that is all heat and no light.

Way to totally miss the point of my comment there, but whatever.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lj_sucks_/]

Perhaps you missed my point.

LJ Abuse decisions have always been capricious and inconsistent. Why did you expect them to behave any differently in response to the complaints from "Warriors for Innocence"?

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Because maybe more than child abuse communities and pedophiles can threaten minors? Look, no one is arguing with you that LJ Abuse has been arbitrary in the past (in my experience, they haven't).

But I'm done here. Your first response to me was hostile, and I don't reward that. Change your tone of voice and quit trying to pick a fight with me, and I will discuss this with you. If not, have a nice life.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Racheline: Sorry for clogging your LJ with the above nonsense.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lj_sucks_/]

Could you elaborate on what part of my first response you thought was hostile to you? The only thing I can think of is that (a) you are upset at my incredulity over your being surprised by yet another LJ Abuse debacle, or (b) you're upset by the suggestion that you were assuming it wouldn't happen to you.