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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.

(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.