getithere | Mod post

For those of you who don't already know, there has been a strike scheduled for Friday, March 21st, 2008, during which we hope to have many members of LiveJournal provide LJ with absolutely no content for twenty-four hours. This means no posting and no commenting. If you post elsewhere and have it set up to be posted through a feed on LiveJournal, don't do it. Stay away from LiveJournal for twenty-four hours.

* It's about free and ad-free LiveJournal accounts being abolished for new members, ignoring the advice from the newly-formed Advisory Board.

* It's about LJ staff trying to sneak this decision in under the radar, and when people found out, telling the users it was done 'to make the signup process less confusing'.

* It's about LJ staff failing to apologize for trying to hide the facts from view and for lying about the actual reasons for their actions.

* And finally, it's about the latest decision to hide certain user interests from the list of Most Popular Interests, some of them being fanfiction, bisexuality, sex and depression. This decision was not announced or explained in any way. Users found out for themselves.

The 24 hours of no content start Friday at midnight GMT

Just to be clear: I am not telling you *can't* post on Friday (i.e. I won't delete anything, or change the settings to moderate what is being posted, etc), I am just asking you to *think* about not posting tomorrow. I don't think it'll be such a great hardship to without posting for one day (just think of all the fic you can finally catch up on ;)) and since fanfic is one of the things LJ seems to have issues with, participating in this strike seems like something members of this comm might have an immediate interest in.

Feel free to disagree, I just wanted to have said it.

Thanks for listening :D