before i blankly try to find something to wear today...

[seperis]

Still have not slept. However, I did stare at the ceiling for several hours. That was enlightening.

My reply to news, possibly coherent, possibly not.

I do believe you're sorry, but I'm not sure if it's for the right things.

For sending a shockwave through ljs by what appeared to be a witch hunt, for not taking the time to post some kind of explanation, or for the discovery that we would revolt.

I--what did you *expect*? You set up deletions and thought no one would notice? Did you have some kind of statement ready and decided not to post? It's kind of inconceivable to me that you'd put together a purge of five hundred ljs and not have something to say about it even if every damn one of those ljs had been active pedophiles bent on predatory intent.

And just for the record--you put your volunteers in a horrific position of being the public face without the authority to speak, taking the brunt of users' bewilderment and anger for almost two days and shaken our trust in them. That, too, is something I feel you should address with them, both with an apology and a policy that never leaves them again as the focal point of user anger without the ability to respond.

I'll reserve actual belief in what's been spoken until I see the mistakenly suspended ljs restored.

You failed us, the users, the community members, and your own volunteer staff.

I can't think of one place you didn't fail.

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I have to get ready for work now. *blinks at closet* I am so seriously tempted to see if I can get an extra day.

Comments

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Woke up thinking I could stop being angry about this now. But yours was the first post on my flist, and you brought up two excellent points I hadn't thought of: even if LJ were only deleting journals of pedophiles, shouldn't they have been prepared to answer questions about those deletions? And what kind of leaders are they at HQ if they will leave their troops on the ground, unprotected, for 48 hours without a word?

I'm not done being appalled by their actions.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I actually finally got pissed on behalf of the support staff when both azure and one of the volunteer ljs had basically the equivalent order of a media blackout. That just *sucks* for them beyond all words. I don't (yet) hold abuse responsible--from what has been said and implied so far, they were given a list and told to delete, and what the hell were their options? Then left for nearly forty-eight hours as the only people we could contact?

I feel--like they were hit as much as we were. He acknowledges that there is staff that is fannish, we *know* our own are on staff, so putting them in this position is untenable.