LJ/6A

Another important open letter to LJ from the say what you mean and mean what you say files: http://imaginarycircus.livejournal.com/128054.html

As many of you know I am relatively happy with the progress of the latest biz announcement and the communication I've been having with rachel, but despite several attempts to speak which have not happened in part because of schedules and in part because I think I'm slipping back on the list by not being Full of Fury right now, that hasn't happened.

I did send her email as regards the latest lj_biz post addressing that:
- I still think we need an apology
- linking policy must take in the fundamental structure and concept of the Internet and WWW
- language precision is critical and there are still issues around child porn/explicit yet legal artistic content LJ can choose not to host
- perceptions of sexism/homophobia must be addressed

On the link front her response indicated that people will not be gone after for links or suspended for links unless their journal seemed to be a linkfarm for child porn. I think individual users are safe. Fandom newsletters maybe, maybe not -- depends on whether we're talking the legal definition of childporn (which has to involve an actual child) or the LJ definition amongst other things. Generally though, assuming they handle themselves as she described on this, we're cool.

On the apology front she said she couldn't speak for others. Well, we're not asking her to. We are asking her to tell management that they really might want to do this and require the offending employees to do the same. I'm annoyed about this, both on her part and on LJ/6A's part and I don't think we're going to get it.

I think LJ is probably being about as transparent as it's planning to be at this point. About which I am not happy. Perceptions of sexism/homophobia probably won't, accordingly, get addressed.

There was no comment on the matter of language precision.

rachel is very good at her job. Perhaps misleadingly so. She does care, she is the best ally we have, but the scale of the bruhaha, while not something she's going to say anythign disparaging about (thank god) I think does boggle her on some level -- both in terms of the precision we, fandom and creatives, are demanding and in terms of the mess LJ made in the first place.

So I'm feeling sort of ho-hum about it all. I think this is as good as it gets guys. And I think it's not good enough.

sundries

Patty's back. Subsequently my ability to leave the house promptly has reached absolute zero. I am excited for next week, when we will do things like go to the beach, go to Shakespeare in the Park and probably also do a day trip to Cold Spring. I'd like to go to AC soon too.

We got the lease renewal for the apartment. All is well. Despite general drama in the neighborhood and the building with gentrification, buy-outs, harassment of tenants. But I made friends in the building this morning, and that's important.

I am obsessed with the miners missing in the collapse. I mean, where the hell are they? Land of the Lost? Makes me want to write creepy fiction.

I go to SF tomorrow.

Today? Contains not enough hours. And a fencing class I probably shouldn't go to. But....

Am thinking of buying a dress form because of possible impending bustle gown project and to use as target practice. Is that weird?

And in conclusion:
Snape LOLcatz
http://community.livejournal.com/prof_snape/608025.html

more 6A/LJ

Despite apologies from various LJ folks, the issue of obscene art (and as someone said at the risk of invoking Godwin's Law when the discussion meandered over to the subject of Egon Schiele, "degenerate art") remains.

I'm about to be away from keys for about 4 days, so my experiment in posting some Schiele work and seeing if I can get myself TOS'ed will have to wait. My theory? Schiele's famous. Blindingly similar material by an obviously amateur artist (by virtue of the subject being a fictional character from an active fandom) will cause dramarama.

Fun fun fun.