LJ/SUP shennanigans

[rm]

LJ edits top popular interest list.
Because fanfiction apparently=porn and the 80,000+ users who list it as an interest may bring revenue to the site but don't, like, actually exist.

http://stewardess.insanejournal.com/228035.html

Also removed? bisexuality and depression

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Things like "sex" and "fanfiction" which used to be on the 100 top interests list suddenly aren't there. Post tracks the numbers on LJ for these over the last several years, makes logical conclusion/assumption that the list has been purged of things LJ feel doesn't fit it's image and reinforces theidea that LJ doesn't like having adult users and continues to cast aspersions on fandom.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

So UNsurprised. I'm pretty much baked on this whole shit. With other people muttering about my fear, that they'll scrap paid accounts and stuff.

I would go back to 3 userpics and no Scrapbook in a flash if I could only have a functioning, non-censored (even PAID) site to use.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I just did an interest search for both sex and fanfiction and got several hundred communities and several hundred individuals, which is a significant number, but not the vast numbers I'd assume. Definitely odd, because they clearly didn't change it for everyone, but it looks like something happened.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Hm. According to this, 277319 LJ users are interested in sex, and 96200 are interested in fanfiction.

[foxfirefey]

That doesn't mean anything--interests searches are limited and don't bring up everyone who has something listed as an interest.

[ithinkitisayit.livejournal.com]

Depression and sex aren't just for adults. I've been depressed since I was 9 and have been masturbating to sexual fantasies since I was 6.

Back when I was 6, I had all incestual fantasies. I had an imaginary mother, father and brother, and I used to have "sex" (well, what passed for sex to my 6 y.o. uneducated mind, which was mostly light petting) with my imaginary brother, Steven.

When I was 11, I wanted to have sex. Realizing that I wasn't around any males during night time (when sex could only happen, in my 11 y.o. logic), I narrowed the results down to my father and grandfather. Thank God they're both wonderful, honest men. Neither would ever EVER do that to *any* child (or ever cheat on their wives). Of course, my grandfather was single at the time (if I recall correctly), since grandma had died the previous year, but he still wouldn't have done it.

I was rather sheltered at 11, and since my family is the type that isn't comfortable keeping the lines of discussion related to sex open, I didn't realize until years later that sex was a very big emotional commitment done through a physical act. I only realized that by the time I was about 13 or so (when I never wanted to hug everyone because I was convinced that hugs lead to sex).

I've been severely depressed since I was 16 and medicated since that age as well.

I don't think SUP truly wants a site aimed towards kids. What they want is to attract the dumbass kids who can't even spell properly. Kids that have just discovered HTML, so they put annoying pictures as their background, and you have to highlight their text in order to read their journal entry.

Basically, what they really want is a bunch of mindless sheep who will give out their personal info, so SUP can sell it to the advertisers. See: Facebook.