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For my own reminders, since I like quotes, and comparisons to land wars in Asia automatically rock.

From The 100th Day in news, March 12, 2008

Wow. So in celebration of your 100th day of owning LJ, you bend your customer base over and sodomize them? I was not aware of this particular practice. Was this perhaps developed in Siberia?
-- ardath_rekha, link

Jason, you're fighting a land war in Asia here. Really, you are. Do yourself a favor and get out before you find yourself accidentally committed to bombing Cambodia ...
-- rahaeli, link

Awesome pie chart of userbase!
--toppedbyaworld

snarkbite:[...]People create new accounts at the drop of a hat at LiveJournal[....]
cmdr_zoom: And that's what they're trying to stop, duh. "Your usage habits WILL conform to our business model."
ramsesthegreate: In Soviet Russia, LJ update you?
--found by montanaharper, link

I HAVE MANY ACCOUNTS THAT ARE ABLE TO GO TO BASIC OR TO PLUS. AS I AM LEAVING LJ, I WILL BE SELLING THEM. THEY ARE $5 EACH.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE EMAIL YAYBASICACCOUNTS@GMAIL.COM.
- basicaccounts, link

OH BOY
LET'S SET ANOTHER T-SHIRT ON FIRE
THAT'LL SHOW THEM
--ericmushroom, link

jasonshellen - I think personal attacks are a bit much.
vichan - Welcome to the internet.
--convo in comments, link

From Untitled in news, March 13, 2008

We're glad to have received your communication! Livejournal's users are always proactively content to synergize their expanded, qualitized communications! In the future, we'll be looking to expand our horizons re: different venues of online social networking! Stay tuned!
-- theblackmeat, link

It only hurts at first, baby, promise. Who loves ya? El Jay...that's RIGHT! Now bend over...
-- onionpeeler, link and *read the entire comment right now*

Mmm, this aura of condescension is so much more delicious than my cheap TV dinner!
-- saralogan, link

one_cup_of_tea: Does it have to patronize, annoy and lie to its userbase to grow adapt change develop?
lorataprose: That's totally a feature, you guys.
one_cup_of_tea: Can they add a feature where, when you log in, lj rapes you up the ass and steals your wallet?
lorataprose: You're in luck! I believe that one's scheduled for the next un-announced release!
-- convo in comments, link

Oh also I love how you made this post which demonstrates the bureaucratic bullshit most blogers find completely offensive
"Overnight you also raised legitimate concerns about how this change was unveiled - message received, loud and clear. We're still working out how to strike just the right tone when communicating with such a diverse and complex collection of communities."
Here is an example of what not to say to a bloger as what the bloger hears is
"Overnight you made us realize you won't hold your heads to our ass and listen for the blow with glee, we will be more careful the next time we fart"
-- hdofu, link

Wow. Is it challenging, using that many words to say absolutely nothing at all?
-- bewarethespork, link

angrychicken: I can tell you, I was absolutely befuddled and dumbfounded by the amount of choices. You should see me try to order off the dollar menu at McDonalds.
claire: Dude, I am still trying to decide what to have for lunch 3 days ago.
legomymalfoy: I get confused at stoplights. I mean, red yellow AND green? D:
-- convo in comments, link

The one that really cracked me up was the thread about how LJ doesn't need to know their user base because they're planning to shape us to fit their business model, not the other way around.

The final comment in the thread (as of when I read it at least) was:
In Soviet Russia, LJ updates you.

*snicker*

Tell me you remember where that was? In a general page way? *hopeful*

I'm in the process of hunting it down as we speak. I considered metaquoting it earlier, and I might just do that now because it's still making me laugh.

Here 'tis:
http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68515051#t68515051

I love you very, very much.

Mwah!

comparisons to land wars in Asia automatically rock

Almost completely off topic, with other values for "bad" -- my sister and I suffered through watching Alexander last weekend, resorting to cracking each other up in order to get through it. Of course, as Alexander moves east, she yelled at the screen: "Classic mistake! Never get involved in a land war in Asia!" And later, Alexander mentioned stopping in Sicily on the way back to Greece, and we howled. "And the biggest mistake, going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

OMG I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO BAD.

"YOU LEFT YOUR KING IN ASIA!"

God, I have an *icon* of that moment somewhere.

*gropes for alcohol to cope* Director's cut! Oh, please, god, do not let Oliver Stone direct again! (Or at least make him add winged monkeys, 'cause that would have made it better. Anything would've.)

HE WAS HIGH THE ENTIRE TIME.

ONE DAY IF WE EVER MEET IN PERSON WE WILL DO THE ALEXANDER DRINKING GAME. AND WE WILL BE FOUDN DEAD THE NEXT MORNING. BECAUSE OH MY GOD.

edited at: Date: 2008-03-14 05:47 am (UTC)

It is a date! I will update last will and testament beforehand! *is officially insane for contemplating a second viewing*

I'm pretty sure that and the one with brad bit will be forever BURNED INTO MY RETINAS and you know-- blocked out for my sanity.

Troy?

That one, yes. I think I possibly watched them back to back and then passed out with a sharp pain behind my right eye.

Hee! Granted, Brad Pitt is a sucking black hole of suckitude, and the story 1) didn't have Odysseus find Achilles hiding in a girls school dressed in drag, 2) excised the Achilles/Patroclus romance, and 3) fucked around with who lived and died at the end.

On the other hand, Sean Bean as Odysseus! Eric Bana as Hector! Peter O'Toole! And Brian Cox! Did I mention Sean Bean?! Plus, Wolfgang Petersen is actually competent at storytelling, cinematography and editing.

Still, I imagine seeing it back to back with Alexander would have been traumatizing ...

*dying*

I think it's fucking awesome that

rahaeli is getting to be on the other side of things and calling the morons on their moronicity publically, not having to be the public face of said moronicity. She brings such good snark, doesn't she? Landwar in asia!

Hell and yes!

you're fighting a land war in Asia here.

But only slightly less well known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when free accounts are on the line.

*giggles hysterically*

Btw, are there somewhere a rule that you can't sell your account? I have two extra basic and a permanent one, throw in a name change token and voila! ;)

*starts giggling* Actually, I'm not sure. *frowns* Good question.

There is usually a standard clause against reselling services in TOS, no? Though how are they going to find out if you have some account, and then give the password to someone for sending you five bucks via paypal, and they change the email address associated with it?

i thought they were just closing down all the basic accounts (so glad i recently switched to Plus). Does this mean they're just not allowing anyone new to get one?

No, they don't close accounts. They just took off the option to register basic accounts for the new users. It's either ads or pay up.

Also, now that you changed to a plus user, you can't change back to a basic account if you decide that you don't like the ads afteral.

Additionally, the people who bought a paid account as a test of got it as a gift, will be reverted to a plus account. So they would have to keep paying if they wish to not to view ads.

I'm a good situation since I have a permanent account. This doesn't concern me immediately. It will concern me, however, when the people writing the content leave. What good will a permanent account do if all the fandom is somewhere else in five years?

Actually afaik anyone under their cut-off user ID for the change can still switch to back-and-forth to Basic. It is only new accounts that have less options. So my paid account would revert to Basic if it expired, not to Plus-Ads.

Has anyone tried this yet? some say that it would revert automatically, some say that it might need some customer communication, which we all know is excellent with lj..

I'm not sure, but

brad (I think) and others were talking about pre-March 12th accounts being 'grandfathered'. From that, and what others have said, I think it means that (at the moment anyway - in the spirit of

seperis's earlier post, I make no guarantees as to the future!) accounts that were created pre March 12th can go back and forth to basic as often as they wish.

Yes, that's what I've heard so far too. We need a tester!

They will need to be very brave! Or unattached to their current paid account/willing to suffer the indignities of plus. *g*

'Tis a pity this didn't come up a week or two back when my account was expiring -- I could have held off on making that payment for a day or two to see what happened.

I don't know, but you can't remove the email address an account was registered with, so even if it were allowed, the original owner would always be able to access the account (since lost password emails can be sent to previously registered email addresses).

You can't change the mail address? But what if you loose the mail address when it gets too corrupted with spam or something. That's just moronic. On the other hand, that might prevent account thefts.

You can change your email address; the previous one just remains archived, exactly in order to prevent account theft. The original owner can always get it back, so long as they have access to the original email address.

Awesome + Win!!

There was a sad lack of many macros but so many good one liners. Almost made up for it.

*cracking up*
maybe they think we LIKE being raped up the ass cuz we often write about it?

hm.

You have a point. *ponders*

I know I shouldn't laugh while getting screwed, it's just that I'm ticklish...

*chokes*

Heh. Thanks for compiling these- I really really don't want to go over there. The t-shirt burning one made me laugh out loud.

I had to stop and re-read on that one.

Oh the memories of seeing the youtube....

The youtube! Just AWESOME. It remains one of the funniest fandom things I've actually seen- even moreso because of all the backstory and history and everything else, and then that it took the shirt itself so long to catch on fire. :D

That Pie chart is made of win.....also....*le sigh* what now lj? what now? Plz to be leaving me alone nao I have big headache

I do like how the management style slowly degrades though. Like watching an avalanche fall very. Very. Slowly.

I love how they were advised to get a Board of Advisors....and they got a Board of Advisors, specially picked to be people whom we historically trust...and then they failed to consult the Board of Advisors.

It's like buying a trained search-and-rescue dog because of licensing requirements, and then using it to play fetch while people die lost and alone in the woods.

YAYBASICACCOUNTS@GMAIL.COM FTW!! same for "red yellow AND green?" :D :D

And that pie chart - oh man, the pie chart.

I can tell you, I was absolutely befuddled and dumbfounded by the amount of choices. You should see me try to order off the dollar menu at McDonalds.

Oh snap.

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