Blogging Strike

[den]

Apparently there are moves to have a Livejournal Blogging Strike on March 21, where everybody is supposed to not write or comment in LJ for 24 hours.

This is the effect I think it will have.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

what the f... ?

I'm not drinking enough obviously.

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

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"?

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

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

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

that reminds me: time to do another backup.

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

*sees no point in backing up internet stuff, since it seems everything gets backed up anyhow. :o*

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

That's a Friday. Guess I can't do Friday Five then, not that it'll be any great loss. :)

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

And why that particular date?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Who knows.

Maybe they (http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/11153.html) do.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/ljspeaks/11153.html

twonks

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Lame.

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.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

mmmm sweet creamy death.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

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.

-=TK

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

All I will ask is, what exactly are they trying to achive here? what are their aims? their goals

or are they just pissyfarting around because their style broke and they don't know how to fix it

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kayshapero]

And leave us not forget the Boston Molasses Disaster (which really DID happen....)

[kayshapero]

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.

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

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.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's all in fun...

[camstone.livejournal.com]

Some people apparently can't find enough drama on the 'net... they have to create more.

[camstone.livejournal.com]

0,o

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...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]