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josharchiveThe recent debacle about LJ's policies, over the abolishing of basic account creation, somehow turned into a debacle about how certain interests- eg pain, bondage, bisexuality, depression- had been filtered out of the popular interests lists.
That was one that I didn't say anything about because it's better than another strikethrough. It pissed me the hell off but things have been worse. Well, apparently others were willing to speak up about it (of course! This is El-Jay land!) and two days later, the filter was removed.
An interview with the VP of blogging over at SUP (I THINK that's his title; it's linked all over the place in the news comments) commented that he didn't find it necessary to notify people who had not made a basic account in 9 years. Wha- wait? That makes no sense... So I'm still quite concerned about this. I mean, the way I read that, this guy believes that NO ONE has made a basic account in nine years?
Clueless, at best, but that's so far out in left field that it can't be right. Yet I can't see any other interpretation of it. It came from a Russian news site, I believe, so there may have been something lost in the translation.
But the fact that they so promptly removed that popular interests filter DOES bode well, as loathe as I am to admit it. 6A would have ignored it for three months and then said they're trying to get rid of child porn with it.
Edit: ATTN: JOSH
YOU CAN'T CLOSE AN ITALIC TAG WITH A BOLD TAG.
NO LOVE, DIMWIT.
That was one that I didn't say anything about because it's better than another strikethrough. It pissed me the hell off but things have been worse. Well, apparently others were willing to speak up about it (of course! This is El-Jay land!) and two days later, the filter was removed.
An interview with the VP of blogging over at SUP (I THINK that's his title; it's linked all over the place in the news comments) commented that he didn't find it necessary to notify people who had not made a basic account in 9 years. Wha- wait? That makes no sense... So I'm still quite concerned about this. I mean, the way I read that, this guy believes that NO ONE has made a basic account in nine years?
Clueless, at best, but that's so far out in left field that it can't be right. Yet I can't see any other interpretation of it. It came from a Russian news site, I believe, so there may have been something lost in the translation.
But the fact that they so promptly removed that popular interests filter DOES bode well, as loathe as I am to admit it. 6A would have ignored it for three months and then said they're trying to get rid of child porn with it.
Edit: ATTN: JOSH
YOU CAN'T CLOSE AN ITALIC TAG WITH A BOLD TAG.
NO LOVE, DIMWIT.
