Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So you think they will continue to support those users ( ahem like me) for free?
They definitely aren't going to start charging you or feeding you ads tomorrow or anything like that. My cynicism is more that 6 months or a year from now, they'll decide that, hey, wouldn't ads for everyone be a great idea after all.
Scrappy, that's so scary about your niece. I'm hoping for the best for her. Where is she? She just got on a plane the other day, right? I hope she's with her family.
It seems clear when they claim to care about the community, they are lying and/or incompetent.
Yes.
I don't understand what the problem is with the ads. I mean, I pay for mine, I don't get any ads. Free account, you get ads. What's bugging people about it?
It seems clear when they claim to care about the community, they are lying and/or incompetent.
From what I've read recently, they've solved this problem by admitting they don't give two shits about the community.
They may care about the community, but that doesn't mean they care about me. If that makes sense.
Me, they actually don't care about, because I snagged a permanent account a ways back, so I can't display my umbrage even vaguely meaningfully. Just as well that I'm not toting any at the moment.
Mostly I'm with Allyson.
The community they care about may be one without people who don't like this new move in it.
Who says Hoovervilles are an historic thing, lost to the past? Now, we've got W's Tent Cities, springing up nationwide!
I don't understand what the problem is with the ads. I mean, I pay for mine, I don't get any ads. Free account, you get ads. What's bugging people about it?
Yeah. I don't pay. If I start putting up with ads because of that, well that would be annoying. And I might be there less because of it -- but I might not.
I wonder about ads though -- I pretty much tune them out or actively dislike what I'm seeing because its annoying. How much subconcious good do they end up doing the advertisers?
Well, are we talking about gigantic pop-ups that say YOU HAVE WON A FREE TUBE OF JOCK ITCH CREAM with a marquee tag? When I go read free content at political blogs and such, I see ads. But I get all the content I want. And someone gets paid to keep providing the service for free, to me.
Hooray.
I hear you, Allyson. I don't quite get the insistence that LJ owes people free accounts. I do think they've been assy in their communication, or lack thereof.
Assy on communication. With you, there.