The Gamer's Quarter

[antitype]

http://news.livejournal.com/99159.html
http://news.livejournal.com/99515.html

Basically, LJ/SixApart decided (or were pressured to) delete all journals deemed in support of child abuse, pedophilia, rape, etc. — lo and behold, hundreds of fandom journals were taken out in the process, and fanfiction writers everywhere were up in arms. Even now that the fandom journals and communities have been restored, they're still bitching. They can't "trust" LJ/SixApart anymore, and they feel they've been humiliated and libeled. Some tread dangerous ground by defending pedophiles (drawing a line between pedophiles who "suffer" with their "disease" and actual child molesters (and the person who made this post admits to being a pedophile in his profile (he also claims to be a soulbond (read: he is fucking batty)))).

One person spoke some sense: "However, my concern is that many people have complained to you about journals and communities with illegal content for years and have been told the standard 'there is no evidence they are committing a crime so they stay' repeatedly. It seemed now that when someone came along threatening to go to the advertisers with screen shots of these sites that a mass deletion occurred and there are still pedophiles out there on lj. I am just upset that all the reasonable people out there were ignored and that you listened to a right wing nut job instead of us. That is where my disappointment truly lies."

If anything that's the only decent reason to get a little miffed at LJ/6A (and the WFI group that apparently caused this), but come on. The comments in these two posts almost make me embarrassed that I even have a LJ (though I manage to stay well out of the way of all this stuff as long as it's not clogging up news posts).

Fans. Ah.
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[dessgeega]

pretty shameful on the part of livejournal, but i'm not going to mourn the loss of anything fandom-related.
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[Dracko]

The sites Warriors for Innocence were aiming for were how-to-guides and "tell me stories of how you fucked your daughter". They are prissy, but LiveJournal went overboard and and banned everything from lolita-gothica to survivor/support groups. They're more to blame, which isn't particularly new by their standards of incompetence. If you listed rape as an interest on your LiveJournal user profile, it should not come to any surprise to you that someone, someday was going to come round knocking. Protesting against Warriors of Innocence on an LJ URL is even stupider, however.

Piss poor business all around, but then again it's not like LJ is a service essential to living. Nor is it its users property, no matter how many deluded fetishists scream First Amendment or human rights (Of course, 99% of the blather one is likely to hear about the First Amendment comes from people who don't know the difference between "entitled" and "protected"; nor do they know anything about the concept of natural rights, which is pure nonsense anyway).

P.S. That guy is a fucking idiot.
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[Shapermc]

While we're on the topic, is there any quick way to back up a Live Journal?

I'm going to be shifting over to wordpress soon (when I get some promised help) and would like to attempt to put my back up on it.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[ryan]

I signed up for a livejournal account so thatbox would know who I was when I commented on his stuff - hey, thatbox! - but I didn't find the service too useful. What's the differences between something like it and wordpress? I read the ultima blog and it used what looks to be traditional blogging software. Are the differences all that much different, or is it more about what sort of community you want to belong to?

Also, a weird aside: A friend of mine used to run The Mushroom. He ran an article about a NAMBLA add-on for The Sims. Wow. Apparently the over-the-top nature completely escaped some people and he received some disturbing (and voluminous) email.
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[dessgeega]

the only really useful thing about livejournal is having a page where stuff your friends have written pops up. it's good if you post irregularly and have a bunch of friends who use it - i keep up with a lot of people i don't regularly see anymore like this.

the ultima blog uses blogger, which is one of the first blogging kits i remember. i use wordpress for my current blog, and though there are some weird things with it it works pretty well.
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[Six]

[dhex]

[internisus]

I'm definitely steering clear of LJ and getting a Wordpress account after I plan it out. It seems more respectable in every way.

Shaper, I know that WP features nice import/export tools, according to their site, but I don't know anything about LJ. In this day and age, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a fairly simple way to do an export.

[Dracko]

Once in a while, I remember why I keep track of Something Awful.
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[Swimmy]

[Dracko]

It's funny because it's all true, from icons to handles to writing style to vapid and misguided opinions. Number 42 indeed.
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[dhex]

something awful is truly the king of low-hanging fruits.
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[Crazy Bacon Lips]

I cannot tell if the comments are real and simply compiled by SA or made by SA Goons and their ilk.