The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.
For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.
This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics.
This is a protest that will not harm LJ in the long run, as leaving LJ might do.
This is a protest that will demonstrate the power of community, as all users unite to support Basic users and the concept of adfree space.
This is a protest that will educate the new owners that LJ is driven by user-created content.
How Can I Help?
DO post about this in your own LJ.
DO post and comment about it in appropriate communities.
DO remember that it's based on Greenwich Mean Time, which may not be your local time.
DO turn off LoudTwitter and your RSS feeds for 24 hours.
DO feel free to friend me for updates, and defriend when the strike is over.
DON'T forget to get permission from community mods before making an off-topic post or comment about the strike.
DON'T be spammy with your posts or comments about the strike.
DON'T forget to turn your LoudTwitter and RSS feeds back on when the strike is over.
For 24 hours, we will not post or comment to LJ. Not in our own journals, not in communities. Not publicly, privately, or under friends-lock.
This is a protest that will have long-lasting effects, showing up forever in the daily posting statistics.
This is a protest that will not harm LJ in the long run, as leaving LJ might do.
This is a protest that will demonstrate the power of community, as all users unite to support Basic users and the concept of adfree space.
This is a protest that will educate the new owners that LJ is driven by user-created content.
How Can I Help?
DO post about this in your own LJ.
DO post and comment about it in appropriate communities.
DO remember that it's based on Greenwich Mean Time, which may not be your local time.
DO turn off LoudTwitter and your RSS feeds for 24 hours.
DO feel free to friend me for updates, and defriend when the strike is over.
DON'T forget to get permission from community mods before making an off-topic post or comment about the strike.
DON'T be spammy with your posts or comments about the strike.
DON'T forget to turn your LoudTwitter and RSS feeds back on when the strike is over.
Comments
March 21 is Good Friday this year in the Western Christian tradition - second holiest day in the year (or holiest, depending on one's tradition). One of my personal observances of that day is to not use my computer. At all.
As a result, I would be seen to be participating in a strike that I'm not sure I even agree with. Now, if news of this strike makes it to my flist (and since I'm reading it on friendsfriends, presumably it will), I'll probably put something up to the effect that "I'm not on strike, it just looks like it" and I'll be happy.
As I said above, I'm not asking for a date change (given that it wouldn't affect me anyway, except in my own personal stubborness, which would probably see me posting on purpose on the day of the strike), I'm just expressing my personal reservations, and my discomfort with the day chosen. But I want to emphasise that my non-use of a computer is a personal observance, not one that anyone else necessarily has.
I am terrifically dense when it comes to time zones, so if you'd be so kind:
This site says, if I'm reading it correctly, that 12AM GMT Friday equals 8PM EST (my time zone) Thursday, yes?
Will definitely be posting this to my journal.
BTW, found this post via
Edited at 2008-03-17 04:56 pm (UTC)
I'm going to translate some few bits in french on my LJ, to warn the french community as much as possible! (I'll redirect them to your post)
Can't wait to hear it....
...It's sort of odd, but this gets me even worse than strikethrough did. I like and use LJ because of the (former) lack of ads.
(will be joining the strike anyway)
As long as you are in charge of the action:)), I suggest you to propose to rename this to “Token Strike”, meaning that it would be continued, in case…
Basic accounts have gone. I very much doubt they will ever come back - it's clearly not something the new owners of the site consider necessary any more. Let's face it - they have far more knowledge of user behaviour than we do. We all have tiny amounts of contact with small bits of the LJ universe - they must have incredibly complex analysis of many years of LJ activity.
No company deliberately acts in a counter-productive way - this will be a decision made because it's felt to be the right decision. Whether it is or not remains to be seen, but striking? Won't get you very far, I'm afraid.
If you're really honest with yourselves, can you really say that your LJ experience is blighted by all of SA/SUP/LJ's actions? I'm just here to write and interact. I personally don't know anyone who has left the site over LJ's actions, and the number of people who have done so is tiny.
I've posted to my journal about it and will be taking part in it. (Somewhat by default..)
If you want something and you are willing to pay for it, you can expect a certain quality. But if you get something for free, you just have to accept what you are given.
If LJ gives us accounts for free and we want that, then we have to accept their conditions. If the condition is that we get adds, then that is the condition.
We can take it or leave it, but complaining is not in order.
Where do we get the idea that we can complain about what we get for free?
I wonder if it would be more effective (and much more of a sacrifice) if everyone who can still switch to basic, does. I mean everyone. For a month. This way, the content is being generated but there is a SIGNIFICANT reduction in income (no ads, no subscription payments).