Wow, LJ. Way to impress me

[hyounpark]

So, which one impresses me more:

Selling Livejournal to one of Russia's oligarchs with strong ties to Putin?

or

Banning interests like "animal crackers" and "spice girls" because they contain the racial epithets "cracker" and "spic" ?

And who feels comfortable with their private information being held to the Kremlin's current standards of privacy (tempered by the standards of the oh-so-customer friendly Delaware corporation)? And who thinks that LJ's "advisory board" will have any greater say in LJ's operations than the current LJ abuse and support team? (To my abuse and support friends, I love y'all, but you know that you're not part of senior management and that you get some pretty ridiculous policies handed down to you from above.)

I have a more serious response to this fuckmuppetry, but that'll take more time to finish up tonight.

Comments

[warsop.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, anyone who likes the Spice Girls should be relieved that LJ is protecting them from broadcasting their bad decisions to the world.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

I have not done any checking of this particular post on my own, nor am I particularly interested in doing so, but I would note that I'd generally trust elfwreck's "public service announcements" about as much as I'd trust the Bush white house's crack PR team; she not only phrases things as hysterically as possible while at the same time claiming absolute knowledge (that she can't possibly have) that her read on the situation is the only "right" one, she's gotten basic, easily-verifiable facts wrong and refused to correct or revise, even when someone points out the errors.

[hyounpark.livejournal.com]

I agree that there are plenty of whackjob opinions on lj, though most of my experience with them is in seeing the comical "financial" and "business" paranoia. (IPO, oh noes!)

But this one was actually true. Shutting off semi-random interests with the same care that went into striketheough and sticking the support team with the aftermath is not cool on several levels.

And the idea of making holocaust and genocide into non-searchable interests during Hanukkah was an especially nice touch. I don't know who's giving orders behind the scenes, but it's pretty obvious that either lessons haven't been learned or they're working on changing interests in a yet-to-be-determined way.

Observingly,
Hyoun

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Having now gone to look at the entry in question:

Filtering interest searchability happened in ... June? July? Something like that. And I'd have to go look, which, again, so not inclined to do, but I'm pretty sure it was announced in lj_releases.

The fact that nobody's noticed it until now should tell you just how much it's impacted everyone's daily use of LJ.

(Now, it's possible that the filters have changed, or that it has something to do with adult-content filtering -- gut instinct is to say that changing one's search filter preferences to 'no filter' might change some of what's displayed, though, again, so not interested in wasting time on it -- but the filtering, period? Yeah. Been there for something like seven months.)