A few things

[emmagrant01]

• FWIW, I'm probably not going to be crossposting to GJ anymore. LJ is still my main journal and the main place I'll watch my flist, and I'm cross-posting some (public only) content to IJ at ths point. I'm going to wait and see what the fandom does over the next couple of months before I make a shift. You can find me at IJ under this same user name. I'm not thrilled with the idea of fandom relocating, and despite the asshattery of LJ, I can't help but hope it won't happen. But if the fandom goes, I will too. *sigh*

• I just spent about an hour friending as many people as I could on IJ. I'm sure there are still a lot of people I have friended on LJ that I haven't found on IJ yet, but I'm slowly catching up. It was hard not not notice that many people I've had mutually friended for years haven't friended me there. I'm usually not that concerned about such things, but still. Meep.

• I think some of you have done this already, but you know those new Pepsi-sponsored free v-gifts LJ is making available? Lots of folks have been sending them to news with a message letting them know exactly what they think. You can see all the v-gifts news has gotten here. If you want to send your own message, go here and scroll all the way down to the bottom. Again, it's free (advertising). Gee, I guess now we know why LJ went on an anti-porn spree -- they had to "clean up" the place for their new big corporate sponsor. God, I miss the old days.

Happy Saturday!

Also posted: IJ

Comments

[tarie.livejournal.com]

By spamming news, lj biz, and lj workers with the sponsored v-gifts, all people are doing is putting money in Pepsi's pockets, sending the message that we ARE self-absorbed, stupid asshats, and slowing down the servers (no, really, that's why some email notifs are delayed, as per an LJ worker who directly told me so). I really think this is not conducive to presenting fandom as intelligent and mature, personally. There are much more eloquent and respectable means of getting one's disapproval across than resorting to behaving like stompy children. :/ Just MO, of course, but...I think they've been spammed enough.

[tarie.livejournal.com]

And no, I don't like the sponsored stuff either. I think it's ridiculous and I do plan on sending an email of complaint.

[gunxshyed.livejournal.com]

I very much agree with you here. *nods*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

We'll agree to disagree on that one. I actually felt better after reading through a lot of the messages there from people all over LJ.

And I don't have an issue with Pepsi. It's not their fault LJ has been treating its customers this way. They probably don't have a clue.