You know...

[mrv3000]

What?

http://news.livejournal.com/92448.html

Heh. Just saw the first comment. Seriously, like who cares what the press on LJ is? This was worth a post? Of course, I'm giving value to this by posting about it which means I am the problem instead of the solution. Or am I the solution to the problem? Is there a problem? Maybe the problem and the solution are one and the same in that neither exist in any way whatsoever.

Kinda like tea and not tea.

Comments

[nandamai]

There's been serious freakoutage over this stuff, with some convinced (and not without reason, for LJ's PR machine sucks) that 6A's goal is to turn LJ into the new teen/tween hotspot, and try to nudge anybody over 18 to Vox. So now they're trying to calm down the rabble.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh. Is that what the fuss is about? Okay, Vox looks more like that teeny-bopper place than LJ. What's it called...myspace.

Eh, just tell me if we're moving.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Wait. No. I don't want to move. I quite like my sidebar right now and am about to pay for another year.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Like nandamai says, some people are seriously freaking out about this. I'm not convinced there's anything to freak over, although I certainly don't want to wander into LJ someday to find it's turned into MySpace. Blech. Really, though, as long as I can keep to my corner and away from the tweenies, I don't really care.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Really, though, as long as I can keep to my corner and away from the tweenies, I don't really care.

Right, exactly. And according to LJ there have been over 10 million journals created and God knows what most of them get up to. Don't care, don't care.

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

And given I have a permanent account, I'm really against moving.

But there is a large petiton going on which around 10,000 people have "signed" (by making a comment). So I definitely think it warrants a response.

[nandamai]

My main issue is kind of a professional one. Like I said, the PR machine sucks. Customer service does, too, and abuse is a mess.

None of the freakoutage would happen if they'd just hire somebody who actually knows how to talk to customers, and make it a policy to treat customers with respect. 6A seems to want to keep up the informal atmosphere LJ had when it was Brad's baby, and they don't understand that now that it's owned by a larger entity, they can't do that anymore.

As somebody who does know how to do this shit, I find their missteps both fascinating and frustrating.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Petition?

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

Petition.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh.

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

News item make more sense now?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

A bit.