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pauraque_bkI'm about to take some LJs off my flist here because the people are crossposting everything to DW, and I never post anything locked on LJ so it doesn't matter whether I've got you friended here or not. (Every time I do this, I think I've eliminated all the duplicates, and I'm always wrong.) If I screw up and take you off when I shouldn't, tell me.
This is something I was going to do anyway, and nothing to do with the recent unpleasantness, though it is certainly becoming more and more evident how ill-suited LJ is for fandom at this point. I mean, it never was "for" fandom -- we were never a majority or probably even a very significant source of their income -- but there was a time when it worked quite well. Or at least we could put slashes in our tags without breaking things, you know...
I've seen it pointed out today that if you have anyone on your flist who would be dumb or insensitive enough to repost something locked and/or connect your fannish identity to your real name when you told them not to, that person shouldn't be on your flist in the first place. Of course that's true, but it's not entirely the point. It's just something that would never even be suggested, let alone implemented, on a service meant for fandom. For us, it's pointless and has obvious potential for abuse. For the people whose business LJ wants, maybe it seems like a good and useful idea, I don't know.
This is something I was going to do anyway, and nothing to do with the recent unpleasantness, though it is certainly becoming more and more evident how ill-suited LJ is for fandom at this point. I mean, it never was "for" fandom -- we were never a majority or probably even a very significant source of their income -- but there was a time when it worked quite well. Or at least we could put slashes in our tags without breaking things, you know...
I've seen it pointed out today that if you have anyone on your flist who would be dumb or insensitive enough to repost something locked and/or connect your fannish identity to your real name when you told them not to, that person shouldn't be on your flist in the first place. Of course that's true, but it's not entirely the point. It's just something that would never even be suggested, let alone implemented, on a service meant for fandom. For us, it's pointless and has obvious potential for abuse. For the people whose business LJ wants, maybe it seems like a good and useful idea, I don't know.
