The content strike
Mar. 22nd, 2008 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiriseTo put it simply, didn't succeed. The people who were skeptical of it had some good points; it was one day (would have been far more effective over a week), it was on a Friday, and on top of that *Good Friday*, where the numbers drop anyway. And maybe it was slactivism. (It did not help that the more antisemitic members on Russia's side of LJ decided to have in on the fun while most of the rest of us were screaming, "Get away! Get away!")
But I believe it succeeded, in a way. It opened up a dialog (mostly between users) about the importance of content on LJ, and it did get some press in Russia, where it counted.
Those of you who know me well (and some that don't know me as well) know that I've been going through some personal stress the last month. That stress kind of ended sadly and abruptly on Thursday, unfortunately around the time the Content Strike was happening. I apologize to anybody who got kind of cranky replies on their LJs from me. I'm very passionate about some things, and censorship is one of my biggies.
It doesn't help that on the Myers-Briggs, I split evenly at INFP and INFJ. I believe strongly in certain things and I can be a bit irrational about them at the best of times, much less at that moment. And it was very frustrating to have people decide not to join the strike - I felt like screaming, "It won't work if you don't *try*!". (On the other hand, I did recognize that the timing was bad and it really needed to go on for more than one day.)
I've also worked in the customer service field long enough that I see both sides. We really are a noisy bunch of folks, we annoyed people, and sometimes we do act like EBs (Entitlement B*ches, for those who don't frequent![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
customers_suck), but on the other hand, if you piss off your customers, they're going to go away.
On the other hand, I kind of agree with the lady who originated content strike: She is a paid user, continues to be a paid user, and believes that LJ is worth supporting. And I agree, too, sort of. It's why this account is plus instead of Basic. I don't want to leave, I don't want to have to go elsewhere. This is where my friends are. But it's extremely frustrating.
I think this quote from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda best describes how I feel (and the rest of her post is great, too, and I like the postcard idea as well):
"I don't quite know the best way to go about this, but to me, the optimal solution would be to keep talking, to keep a dialogue going, in which we explain that LJ is not the only game in town--but it's the game we love, and we don't want to leave. We want this to be a win-win situation for everyone, where LJ prospers and we stay and SUP's (or 6A's, or whoever happens to be running the show at any given time) actions are introduced and explained to us in the full light of day."
This would make me happy. This is the way I want it to be. We're a freaking blogging site, we communicate, that's why the lack of communication is so painful and awful to me.
But I believe it succeeded, in a way. It opened up a dialog (mostly between users) about the importance of content on LJ, and it did get some press in Russia, where it counted.
Those of you who know me well (and some that don't know me as well) know that I've been going through some personal stress the last month. That stress kind of ended sadly and abruptly on Thursday, unfortunately around the time the Content Strike was happening. I apologize to anybody who got kind of cranky replies on their LJs from me. I'm very passionate about some things, and censorship is one of my biggies.
It doesn't help that on the Myers-Briggs, I split evenly at INFP and INFJ. I believe strongly in certain things and I can be a bit irrational about them at the best of times, much less at that moment. And it was very frustrating to have people decide not to join the strike - I felt like screaming, "It won't work if you don't *try*!". (On the other hand, I did recognize that the timing was bad and it really needed to go on for more than one day.)
I've also worked in the customer service field long enough that I see both sides. We really are a noisy bunch of folks, we annoyed people, and sometimes we do act like EBs (Entitlement B*ches, for those who don't frequent
customers_suck), but on the other hand, if you piss off your customers, they're going to go away.On the other hand, I kind of agree with the lady who originated content strike: She is a paid user, continues to be a paid user, and believes that LJ is worth supporting. And I agree, too, sort of. It's why this account is plus instead of Basic. I don't want to leave, I don't want to have to go elsewhere. This is where my friends are. But it's extremely frustrating.
I think this quote from
cleolinda best describes how I feel (and the rest of her post is great, too, and I like the postcard idea as well):"I don't quite know the best way to go about this, but to me, the optimal solution would be to keep talking, to keep a dialogue going, in which we explain that LJ is not the only game in town--but it's the game we love, and we don't want to leave. We want this to be a win-win situation for everyone, where LJ prospers and we stay and SUP's (or 6A's, or whoever happens to be running the show at any given time) actions are introduced and explained to us in the full light of day."
This would make me happy. This is the way I want it to be. We're a freaking blogging site, we communicate, that's why the lack of communication is so painful and awful to me.
