MOVED permanently to Insane journal [06 Dec 2007|05:46am] [ mood | blah ] I made the final decision, I only keep this journal for reading my f-list (which I will trim a bit) and some communities. So if you for some reason like to read what I am doing, head to barbayat @ insanejournal. Why am I leaving? Ever since the strikethrough 2007, I have been annoyed with 6A policies and way of treating customers. I know the owners can say what can be posted or not, but fandom was here before them. It's like someone buying an apartment block and then throwing out all the homosexuals (or another minority). I do not feel like supporting this. Especially since 6A hid behind the empty agenda of "protecting the children". Anyone with two working brain cells could see that they give rat shit about the kids. But as always the battle cry worked - people would shut their brains off and just praise them. While good people including the ones they claimed to protect got hurt. What followed was fake apologies (some people fell for it), more banning of well known slash artists and an atmosphere of distrust. Nobody made a clear statement what we could post or not. All 6A did was to evade, ignore and play on the optimism and naivete of their userbase. But fandom is not optimistic or naive. 6A did not deliver the promised policy update, they only had one staffer rachel running around to appease the masses. Nothing came out of it. Then suddenly they introduced this flagging tool. A tool that is as flawed as a brand new windows operating system, can and will easily bypassed by any kid that can read and is an open invitation for abuse. Just as I was trying to figure out what to do about this shit, 6A announced the sale of LJ to SUP. But SUP already has a rotten reputation about their customer service, including logging into user journals without their permission. I don't even need to hear about connections to the Kreml (it's a Russian firm) and the possibility that they might allow for the persecution of the Russian users who say something that the Putin regime does not agree with. Just look at the lj_2008 post about the advisory board. The LiveJournal Advisory Board will publish and update on a regular basis a clear a set of aims and values. This will address such vital community issues as privacy, security, taste and decency. It will also provide a forum to consider any relevant legal, political or religious concerns. Bolding mine! Hello? That sounds liket they will head the same way as 6A just on a faster pace. I'm not panicking, I had enough. I bought a permanent account for $35 at InsaneJournal. Regular price is $40 after the fire sale. It might not have all the features installed with LJ, but users over there are growing. I think the best protest against this ongoing policy towards sanitising this page and the other crap that they have pulled is to leave. Voicing concerns is obviously ignored, a cut back in the statistics (less user, but most of all less posts) speaks for itself. And honestly if SUP really knows that much what livejournal is all about, they will go out of their way to prove that they can be trusted, but somehow I don't see that happening. It's not up to us to be trusting, it's up to them to earn it back! post comment

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