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?
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
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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.
Allyson - Mar 19, 2008 1:35:35 pm PDT #6036 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Jessica - Mar 19, 2008 1:37:30 pm PDT #6037 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2008 1:38:36 pm PDT #6038 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Kathy A - Mar 19, 2008 1:39:55 pm PDT #6039 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Who says Hoovervilles are an historic thing, lost to the past? Now, we've got W's Tent Cities, springing up nationwide!
Trudy Booth - Mar 19, 2008 1:40:39 pm PDT #6040 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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?
Allyson - Mar 19, 2008 1:45:06 pm PDT #6041 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
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.
Jesse - Mar 19, 2008 1:47:44 pm PDT #6042 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Allyson - Mar 19, 2008 1:49:32 pm PDT #6043 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Assy on communication. With you, there.
bon bon - Mar 19, 2008 1:50:10 pm PDT #6044 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm not bothered by ad-supported accounts, or ad-supported websites or whatever. I think it's clear that it bothers some of the users, or else they all would have gone to ad-supported. I'm bothered (almost academically, since I don't use my account for posting) that they made an obvious big policy change without notifying existing users. And that they want to maintain an image as a friendly, community-based company. That's stupid. If Mastercard makes a change, they try to sneak it by me, whatever. But I don't use Mastercard because it is a warm and fuzzy thing to have.
Speaking of community takeover, did people notice that Miss Alli left TWoP too?
Jesse - Mar 19, 2008 1:50:58 pm PDT #6045 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In other news, I was in a training today where the phrase "servant leadership" was used. All I could think was "topping from the bottom." I blame you people.