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Feb. 6th, 2003 04:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickI'll be honest. I don't get it. I don't get the far-reaching outcry against bradfitz's attempt to keep things running semi-smoothly for LJ. I can see you being angry at the WAY it was delivered, out of seemingly nowhere and with no user input at all, but I have to think about things this way...
For free, you have the chance to write 3 (or MAYBE 4 or 5. Personally, I think it should be 5 so that you have an incremental step up) posts a day on a BIG Worldwide community that everyone can read. Bigger than![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
chaoticmux, Bigger than anything most of us have, to this point, real deal with.
This, apparently, outrages people not because (at least with the people I watch), they USUALLY write more than 3 posts a day (There are some people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phinnia who probably do, but by and large, very few of us do write more than 3 posts a day. When we do, they tend to be things like surveys or just randomness to wile away the boredom)
Let me make it clear. I don't condone the waybradfitz did it. He never asked for suggestions. He never posted in news... "I think we need to make caps. What caps do YOU think are best?" It's one thing to be a part of something still, but another to throw your weight around and say "This is how it WILL BE. DOn't like it? Tough.'
On the other hand, once you get past presentation, I don't think the idea is bad.
I guess I put it in perspectives like this. NOTHING beats a real-time conversation. That's why I still hang out on places likekareila or xb95, who I just don't really SEE.
That's why, in reaction toxb95's post.. unless at least the MAJORITY of y'all came along.. I'd never leave. I've paid for my permanent account here. I'm set here. I've got my communitees, I've got my friends. Why SHOULD I leave?
Should you leave a MUX because you're unhappy about a decision that a wizard made, even though all your friends are there? In that case, I'd have leftchaoticmux long ago and never looked back.
But since I don't even think ANYONE has the resources to keep a place as big as LJ up and running. (And I'm sorry,xb95... free users have their place in the grand lj scheme of things too. You may offer a small place that's faster for a select number of users.. but...If I confined my friends list to ONLY those people who were paid or permanent, it'd be a short list indeed. So I'm still losing out.)
I'll stay here, thanks.
For free, you have the chance to write 3 (or MAYBE 4 or 5. Personally, I think it should be 5 so that you have an incremental step up) posts a day on a BIG Worldwide community that everyone can read. Bigger than
chaoticmux, Bigger than anything most of us have, to this point, real deal with.This, apparently, outrages people not because (at least with the people I watch), they USUALLY write more than 3 posts a day (There are some people like
phinnia who probably do, but by and large, very few of us do write more than 3 posts a day. When we do, they tend to be things like surveys or just randomness to wile away the boredom)Let me make it clear. I don't condone the way
bradfitz did it. He never asked for suggestions. He never posted in news... "I think we need to make caps. What caps do YOU think are best?" It's one thing to be a part of something still, but another to throw your weight around and say "This is how it WILL BE. DOn't like it? Tough.'On the other hand, once you get past presentation, I don't think the idea is bad.
I guess I put it in perspectives like this. NOTHING beats a real-time conversation. That's why I still hang out on places like
kareila or xb95, who I just don't really SEE.That's why, in reaction to
xb95's post.. unless at least the MAJORITY of y'all came along.. I'd never leave. I've paid for my permanent account here. I'm set here. I've got my communitees, I've got my friends. Why SHOULD I leave?Should you leave a MUX because you're unhappy about a decision that a wizard made, even though all your friends are there? In that case, I'd have left
chaoticmux long ago and never looked back.But since I don't even think ANYONE has the resources to keep a place as big as LJ up and running. (And I'm sorry,
xb95... free users have their place in the grand lj scheme of things too. You may offer a small place that's faster for a select number of users.. but...If I confined my friends list to ONLY those people who were paid or permanent, it'd be a short list indeed. So I'm still losing out.)I'll stay here, thanks.
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Date: 2003-02-06 07:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-06 07:32 am (UTC)You can only make 3 posts per day, but still infinite comments.
That's as I understand it.
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Date: 2003-02-06 07:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-06 07:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-06 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-06 09:42 am (UTC)As the news post states, there's only going to be a limit to journal entries that you post (either to your own journal or to a community). Commenting limitations will probably come about later, but they aren't part of the plan yet.