Hmmm...

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http://anildash.livejournal.com/25989.html?view=68%20997

Obviously, I need more to do. :-)

School starts after Gencon, I'm in a holding pattern for a few things, so what do I do? Go looking for more on the whole "LJ/6A issues thing".

I actually found someone who apparently is higher up in the LJ pecking order, who appears to be listening. He made one comment on this post that I found interesting and enlightening.

Magic 8 ball says "Too early to tell", but there is hope that LJ can fix some of their current PR problems.

Comments

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Um, there are a lot of comments on that post. Who is the guy?

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A VP of Six Apart.

http://www.anildash.com/

Now, whether that truly means he pulls any weight, I don't know. This is the Inter-tubes, where things are either right, or never what they seem. :-)

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Which was the interesting and enlightening part? I'm still confused. I see just the post, which says Fuck-you to rumor mongers, and a LOT of comments, some of which are his.

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There was one, on the second page, that was from him talking about the essence of them being under a microscope. There were a few really good things in there. It actually gave me hope that they are aware of their issues, and might stand a chance of working through them.

I feel sorry for them, to a great degree, but have no real solution, which bothers me.

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

This one? http://anildash.livejournal.com/25989.html?thread=77445#t77445

There's a "link" link at the bottom of each comment, so you can get the direct URL to what you were talking about.

This guy does sound like he's pretty clearheaded. However, he did initially post fuck-you to rumor-mongers. LJ is not going to be able to solve this PR problem if employees are allowed to vent their anger on their well-known public journals. Once you get past a certain profile, your public discourse just isn't your own anymore. LJ's clearly reluctant to accept this.

None of that addresses the fact that LJ seems to have paralyzed itself and can't build a coherent TOS. There should be lots of TOSs to build examples from. I'm going to guess eBay and Googlegroups probably have decent and well-tested TOSs. The fact is that obscenity isn't going to have a universal definition. There will always be some judgement call involved. LJ needs to make that clear too, and back it up by treating the owners of banned journals like human beings.

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True, his initial was wrong, even if I can understand (falling into some of it myself) the perturbed feeling towards the gossip going around. he got much clearer, and does seem to be trying to help.

Argh, didn't think of linking the comment directly.

Exactly, and I tried pointing some of that out to him, though I hadn't thought of other TOS' to go by example. However, our stand on the definition of obscenity is similar.