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Doug goes off.
OK, I have had it with the whinging and bitching over the demise of ad-free Basic Accounts. How about some facts?
1. LJ/Six Apart/The Russian Overlords are businesses who exist to make money. Freebie accounts that use resources and do not generate income do not serve this end. I'm amazed it took this long.
2. A one-year Paid Account costs USD19.95. That's about half of what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kshandra and I paid today for 90 minutes at a skeevy hot tub place. Put it another way, a paid account costs about 5 cents a day. A six month account? 8 cents a day. This is not going to freaking kill you!
3. They aren't our servers, our software, and when the system crashes we aren't the ones paying for the repairs. They own LJ, it is not some sort of anarchist commune. They own the sandbox, they make the rules. If you don't like the rules, feel free to play somewhere else.
So not only will I not be taking part in the utterly pointless March 21st "No Content Day," I may see if I can top my personal records for number of posts and length of those posts!
Finally, I know some people, including friends and relatives of mine, have created multiple, in some cases hundreds, of Basic Accounts for role-playing games. To them I say: too bad. In fact, I suspect the thousands of sock accounts might be part of this move. If y'all wish to keep RPGing by LJ, you'll have to find a new way to do it.
1. LJ/Six Apart/The Russian Overlords are businesses who exist to make money. Freebie accounts that use resources and do not generate income do not serve this end. I'm amazed it took this long.
2. A one-year Paid Account costs USD19.95. That's about half of what
kshandra and I paid today for 90 minutes at a skeevy hot tub place. Put it another way, a paid account costs about 5 cents a day. A six month account? 8 cents a day. This is not going to freaking kill you!3. They aren't our servers, our software, and when the system crashes we aren't the ones paying for the repairs. They own LJ, it is not some sort of anarchist commune. They own the sandbox, they make the rules. If you don't like the rules, feel free to play somewhere else.
So not only will I not be taking part in the utterly pointless March 21st "No Content Day," I may see if I can top my personal records for number of posts and length of those posts!
Finally, I know some people, including friends and relatives of mine, have created multiple, in some cases hundreds, of Basic Accounts for role-playing games. To them I say: too bad. In fact, I suspect the thousands of sock accounts might be part of this move. If y'all wish to keep RPGing by LJ, you'll have to find a new way to do it.
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My problem was that they didn't even bother to announce the change, then claimed that they didn't think it affected current users, then claimed that it wasn't a business decision, but was done to make signing up simpler, then when a million users called them on that, they then decided it was a business decision and got snotty about how they do need to make money. I'm not a big fan of being treated like an idiot.
(That said, your post is the first I've heard of a No Content day on the 21st, and I don't have any intention of joining it.)
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I might post on Friday...I dunno. But if I don't, it'll be 'cause I don't think the post I'm working on is done, nothing more. Just like every other day.
Also? Penguins.