ladyiapetus | (no subject)

Yeah, so, that strike thing that people are talking about? Where you go 24 hours tomorrow without posting or commenting or otherwise not using LJ?

S'not happening on this journal.

1) I don't post frequently enough that people would notice that I wasn't posting. Same with commenting.

2) It's going to be counter-productive. SUP isn't even going to notice, let alone care.

3) I really don't give a nerf that LJ has done away with the ad-free basic accounts, mainly because I haven't created a new basic account in years. I have a permanent account of my own, and before that I spent about four years paying to renew a paid account + the extra icons. All of my RP accounts ~~that I can recall~~ have Plus accounts, mainly so that I can have the limit of 15 icons as opposed to six.

And seriously, banner ads? Not that big a deal, people. Believe it or not LiveJournal is not the first and/or only site on the Internet to have them. They're on FF.Net, DeviantArt, and practically any site hosted by places like Angelfire, Yahoo!Geocities or MSN - and that's only the tip of the iceberg. And on the majority of those sites (FF.Net being the only exception among the sites listed above) the only way to get rid of the ads, if you don't have an ad-blocker, is to pay for an upgrade or a subscription to that site's service.

Fact of the matter is, nothing is completely free anymore. And banner ads make the World Wide Web go 'round.

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Yeah, I don't quite get what all the hoopla is about. I mean, I have a paid account, so I really don't care what's going on in the Land of Basic and Plus accounts. I've heard some uproar over "poor customer service" in regards to the basic accounts, which, quite frankly, I don't get. As far as I'm concerned, people with basic and plus accounts really aren't customers (they're not really paying for anything, are they?).

**shrugs**

Maybe I'll post extra crap on my journal tomorrow just to make up for things (and be extra annoying).

The whole thing makes me laugh. I mean, people are freaking out over ads? I'm guessing that they have never gone to any other website outside of LJ, then, because banner ads are everywhere. And really, they're only be placed on unpaid for, basic accounts. Who the flip with half a brain that functions cares?

Fact of the matter is, almost every website out there where a person can sign up for a free account of some sort has ads. I can't think of one that doesn't. To have a fit over LiveJournal finally doing it themselves, and only on the recently made unpaid accounts (not even all of them, sheesh), is ridiculous. People are acting like spoiled, self entitlement whores.

THE INTERNET HAS NEVER BEEN A FREE SERVICE. GET OVER YOURSELVES.

Honestly, have these kids been living under a rock their whole lives? Ads and the internet go hand in hand. Deal with it, and move on. Or even better, GTFO.

Most of the complaints I've seen haven't been exactly about the ads, (although there have certainly been those complaints), but more about that the old basic account option isn't available anymore. The biggest complaint I've seen is really how LJ handled letting everyone know about it - which is to say, they did it with their usual fail intact. Throw in some promises that were apparently not kept (but weren't exactly binding promises to start with), and we have LJ screwing up all over again. I think so much of the drama could have been avoided if LJ would just learn to communicate better.

I don't think a day of posting/reading silence is going to do any good. The only thing I think that will get LJ's attention is either a server crash from a sudden usage spike - which I'm not sure if that will have the desired result in the end at all - or a massive exodus from LJ of paid account holders. For me, LJ is easy to use, and a lot more user friendly than MySpace, so I'm not really inclined to leave at this point and time.

Honestly? I'd be more upset over stupid, over-reactive censorship right now, rather than apparently broken promises that LJ wasn't legally bound to keep to start with and LJ's continuing fail in the communication department.

Yeah, I'll admit that how they announced the removal of the basic account option could have been handled a lot better than it was. I don't know if they thought it would be better accepted it if were just mentioned in passing, or if they have a bunch of morons working in their PR department.

My money's on option 2.

What little money I have is on #2 also.