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lovelokest.livejournal.com: Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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erestor: Meta: LJ - it's not about the kids - it's about us.
"If you're upset about the recent bannings on LJ, you're supporting kiddie porn!" Oh. Is that the same as "if you don't support the war in Iraq, you're a communist?" Funny how propaganda always works the same way, isn't it.- lavendertook: WTF, LJ? - are we dealing with sexism? Since all women are supposed to look like they are 16-25, is LJ's problem here with the depiction of a male as subject of a female gaze, and charges of underaged depiction being used to cover this, -
- verstehen: Language and Speech Patterns - Those female language patterns are reinforced over and over by the other members of fandom itself. Case in point: witchqueen's inability to simply just say "this is a racist term" without people . . . forcing her to qualify, qualify, qualify. -
- astolat: journaling alternatives - I do have some thoughts about journaling alternatives myself, that I think might be valuable to others who are considering putting one together, but I want to emphasize that this is my own personal rambling, and not something from the organization. -
- astolat: [in fanarchive] brief update - Just a quick heads-up and to apologize for the radio silence: -
- minotaurs: For I contain multitudes... - Instead of just one journal service for everyone, how about a site that concatenates *all* journal services? -
- atrata: [in fandom_flies] For a variety of reasons, I think it is - For a variety of reasons, I think it is time to start talking very seriously about fandom's exodus from LJ. I don't think this is the space really discuss the whys; those have been done to death. -
- cm_fandom: How-To / How-Not-To / Vidding Poll - I'm looking for information from vidders from all different skill levels to respond to this. -
- jelynne: Taking a step back to get a better look - From outside Fandom, pornish_pixies looks like itâs all about pornographic material involving children. Nor does a skim of the community information or front-page entries do anything to prove otherwise. That's it. That's where the persecution begins -
- antennapedia: Extracting LJ entries into local files, OS X edition - This tool will a) back up locally, and b) optionally migrate your posts. -
- slytherincess: Two Knuts - I disagree, though, with the reactionary suggestions for a mass exodus to another blogging site. The big bitch of freedom of speech is that it goes both ways -- people have the right to voice opinions other than ours, and Six Apart is not obligated to the -
- ignazwisdom: Not!Meta: got a bee in my bonnet about community lockdowns - For the second time now, a moderator of a very small community I'm in for a very small fandom -- the main community for that fandom -- has announced a new policy, in response to LiveJournal's suspension hijinks, of forcing all members to lock any posts th -
- oulangi: Class act, LJ, all the way! - If you want to use us, your LJ customer base, to raise money for your pet causes, fine. But at the VERY LEAST you should have acknowledged these links, instead of painting this as altruism on your parts. It's shady. -
- sapphoq: El Jay does it again - I usually don't mind following the rules if I know what they are and if they are somewhat sensible. -
- msilverstar: LJ doesn't want us. Time to make other plans. - I've come to believe that LJ doesn't want to deal with sexuality and those parts of fandom that are sexually explicit. -
- rushin_doll: Where is all the concrit? I blame computer programmers - The problem is pretty simple: thanks to history, we're used to thinking of text as a static entity, especially when the concept of "publishing" gets tossed around. -