What's the strike about? If it's about LJ sucking, wouldn't it be better for everyone to post that on their LJ, with no other comments, to emphasize the point and put a blip in the "current hot topic"?
A proper blogging strike on LJ would involve leaving the site like folks keep threatening to do, really. There's good reasons I keep my actual posts elsewhere. :P
And thanks for reminding me about The Onion. Thank goodness they informed me of my home town's well-deserved demise (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29194) before I bothered going back.
Now, if everyone decided not to pay for their account for two months, that would hurt LJ. But not writing? They'll be glad of the day of server relief.
Hey, it's been obvious for awhile that the folks running this thing are semi-competent at best. If repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot hasn't taught them anything by now, I doubt they'll even notice this. I'm off to Scribblit soon as it gets its act together; if not I'll probably just host my own journal and post links to whatever other journal communities are around that folks might want to find it from.
The real flaw is that said users on this would be like, maybe 20% of the full LJ population? It'll be a sharp decline, but unless the rest of the LJ users somehow do not post as well, it's likely chalkable as part of the normal distribution curve.
IMO a single post saying disagreement and nothing else would be more noticible, since 20% of all LJ on the exact same topic, exact same words, would easily register on any data tracking system.
Wasn't that the reasoning that the dot coms game just before the market went bust and industry realized..."Wait, we really don't need that much content... and we can get most of this for free!"
Seriously, if someone wanted something like this to really happen, it would get a lot better press and more notice than three days out...
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I'm not drinking enough obviously.
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Maybe they (http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/11153.html) do.
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And thanks for reminding me about The Onion. Thank goodness they informed me of my home town's well-deserved demise (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29194) before I bothered going back.
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or are they just pissyfarting around because their style broke and they don't know how to fix it
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IMO a single post saying disagreement and nothing else would be more noticible, since 20% of all LJ on the exact same topic, exact same words, would easily register on any data tracking system.
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Wasn't that the reasoning that the dot coms game just before the market went bust and industry realized..."Wait, we really don't need that much content... and we can get most of this for free!"
Seriously, if someone wanted something like this to really happen, it would get a lot better press and more notice than three days out...
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