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dangermousieThere supposed to be an LJ strike for March 21, 2008 (a.k.a. this Friday).
Apparently people are pissed off LJ got rid of Basic Accounts (few features, free) accounts for any users who will join from now on, and thus, for prospective users, only either has the option of Plus Accounts (free for you, more features, with ads) or Paid Accounts (you pay, lots of features, no ads).
I guess as a sort of boycott it makes sense as a market measure if you are disgruntled.
Only I am not.
LJ is a business. There is nothing weird or evil in wanting to maximize your profits.
They aren't taking a Basic Account away from anyone who already has it. They are not obligated to provide a service to a user for free, i.e. expend resources on something that brings them indirect benefits (other paid/plus users liking LJ because of reading someone else's basic journal) at best. Offering a choice between either a paid membership or free membership during which you have to look at some ads makes sense to me and is hardly the evil dictatorship apocalypse.
In interests of disclosure, I have a Permanent Account, had a Paid Account for ages before that, and I think most of people whose LJs I read are either Permanent, Paid, or Plus. Though even if it was Basic, they'd be able to keep it, so it makes no difference to my flist at all. And as for prospective future flisters, seriously, is anyone who I am likely to want to friend for their insightful and witty takes on hot guys going to be deferred by switch from Basic to Plus? You've got to be kidding me.
This is a long-winded way to say that, no, I won't be participating in the LJ strike.
Expect blab as usual.
Apparently people are pissed off LJ got rid of Basic Accounts (few features, free) accounts for any users who will join from now on, and thus, for prospective users, only either has the option of Plus Accounts (free for you, more features, with ads) or Paid Accounts (you pay, lots of features, no ads).
I guess as a sort of boycott it makes sense as a market measure if you are disgruntled.
Only I am not.
LJ is a business. There is nothing weird or evil in wanting to maximize your profits.
They aren't taking a Basic Account away from anyone who already has it. They are not obligated to provide a service to a user for free, i.e. expend resources on something that brings them indirect benefits (other paid/plus users liking LJ because of reading someone else's basic journal) at best. Offering a choice between either a paid membership or free membership during which you have to look at some ads makes sense to me and is hardly the evil dictatorship apocalypse.
In interests of disclosure, I have a Permanent Account, had a Paid Account for ages before that, and I think most of people whose LJs I read are either Permanent, Paid, or Plus. Though even if it was Basic, they'd be able to keep it, so it makes no difference to my flist at all. And as for prospective future flisters, seriously, is anyone who I am likely to want to friend for their insightful and witty takes on hot guys going to be deferred by switch from Basic to Plus? You've got to be kidding me.
This is a long-winded way to say that, no, I won't be participating in the LJ strike.
Expect blab as usual.
