What the @#%! Happened?!?!

[eccentrici]

Hi gang!  I was away from LJ for a week due to the kickoff of the Summer Reading Program (more on that later) and when I return, I find there is a mass exodus going down.  So, what happened? I should never leave the room.

Comments

[thefreshchuff.livejournal.com]

My god, it was insane. this (http://catrinella.livejournal.com/151812.html) is the best play-by-play that I know of. But basically LJ decided to delete some sex offenders by suspending everyone with "incest" as an interest. But a lot of fic communities and survivors of incest, and a community reading Lolita, got suspended as well.

Basically it was every fandom, including everyone in the Harry Potter fandom, agreeing with each other and turning against LJ for a time. And now LJ has apologized and reinstated the suspended journals, saying they messed up, but half the people are still crying that they've forever lost their trust and are trying to find a new place to move Fandom. I think it'll cool down, though. (Partially because I don't want Fandom everywhere to leave LJ for good!)

So yeah. LJ handled a situation badly, lost a lot of trust and respect by taking 44 hours to address the users of the site about it, but talking to a couple news sources instead, and even though things are back the way they were, lots of people are unhappy. Strikethrough '07. Deletegate, etc.

What's funny is that you're not the first person on my flist to be like "OKAY, I TOOK A WEEK HIATUS AND EVERYTHING'S GONE MAD!!!" You guys picked the wrong week to sign off! ;)

[ngaio]

Yeah, the link you've already been given and liz_marcs entries are the best, most balanced and linked and everything.

I think really we *aren't* exodus-ing! But we are looking around and seeing where else we *could* be if we had to be.

Oh, and go and look at fandom_counts, it's is literally set up to count fandom members on LJ and when I looked it was at 32000 members!

using my "witch hunts" icon so you can get the full experience

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I've got some links in my memories here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=kindkit&keyword=lj+suspension+issue&filter=all)

[otherpervert.livejournal.com]

Dude, so in the same boat as you. Left for a week to see the fam, come back and all is crazy. I had friends-locked just before then too for something else entirely, but the world seems to have gone mad.

Also? Greatest Journal is so not the Greatest Journal... I think I'm going to stick with LJ until they pry my journal from my cold, dea- etc. You get the picture :)