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Ah yes, because being proud of your bad customer service and calling all of fandom pedophiles is a way to improve this situation.

http://community.livejournal.com/efw/117416.html?thread=2475176#t2688936

ETA: post and dozens of angry comments deleted. Screenshot, anyone?

ETA2:
Where the post went: http://eleri.livejournal.com/1182675.html
Rahalia summarizes what you missed: http://rahalia-cat.livejournal.com/1433554.html

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

burr86's unprofessionalism astounds me, it really does.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Wow. I feel like we should find out if Brad, Evan, etc know any nice high schoolers from Issaquah to take LJ back, you know?

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

...

At first I had no idea what was going on, but then I figured out who burr86 was.

As a survivor of sexual abuse perpetrated by real predators and not pictures of imaginary wizards, I'm shaking with rage over here.

[fragiletender.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that really got my goat too. I don't give a bugger about fanfic, it's not about that for me. It's about the lack of respect, the lack of communication, the taint of homophobia and the general fuckwittery. Oh, and the complete ignorance about art was irritating too.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

In addition to the rage I feel over that whole thread, I feel a certain contempt. Doesn't the guy know to get a sockpuppet? Not only does he suck as a person, but he's really bad at this mockery thing.

[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

This is getting absolutely fucking sickening.

[phaenix-ash.livejournal.com]

this is unreal. are they THAT confident that they can take the financial blow of all fandom and supporters leaving?

i was wondering...is it possible to get a poll going that might get a broad picture of what percentage of LJ is thinking of just jumping ship and circulate it as broadly as possible to get answers from the non-fannish as well?

[rothko.livejournal.com]

hrrrmmm.... i'm getting "no such entry" when i click on that... interesting...

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Fascinating and horrible.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Since I don't read enough of this stuff otherwise, I really appreciate these updates.

Rahalia's post is f-locked, however; is there another good update source that you know of?

I'm so very disappointed in LJ's handling of this. And if staffers are coming to snark at fandom in 'staff voice', I'm really disgusted.

Let me know where all the fen go for hosting. If this gets much worse I may have to set up an 18+ LJ host myself.

[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

I've taken the post down. I'm done with LJ.