LJ's at it again.

[fickle]

ponderosa121's journal was deleted by LJ for having illegal content.

Why is her name bold? Because LJ has apparently suddenly decided that bolding names instead of striking them through is less noticeable and will kill the rallying cry of "Strikethrough '07". Yeah fucking right.

elaboration has also been deleted, and she had a completely flocked journal.

I have no idea what elaboration had on her journal but ponderosa121 was a fantastic Gundam Wing fanartist and did a gorgeous bit of artwork for Trowa/Une. I know she was also in the FMA fandom and HP fandom, both of which slide towards the underage thing, but these are fictional characters being drawn or written about. FICTION.

LJ must have lost its bloody mind if it thinks that this new bolding tactic is so subtle that fandom will be collectively blind to it.

If you want more links on what's going here, try here, here, and complain to LJ here.

fandom_counts. Don't forget to join it with all the writing, graphics and RP journals you have.

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I should go to my two old YGO rp accounts. :D

It's the bold that gets me. Come on LJ. Stop insulting my intelligence on top of everything else.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Do it! XD I signed up dice_addict, thesirenremixed, golden_psycho, quietwatcher, darkreflected, linearlogic, shoppingtherapy -- and then got temporarily banned from logging in when I couldn't remember the password for verdantargent. ^^;; But I still have more journals left to go! *determined little thing, oh yes*

I have no idea why they thought the bold would work. "WHAT ARE YOU, DENSE? WE'RE THE GODDAMN FANDOM."

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

HOW DO THEY THINK WE WOULDN'T NOTICE THE BOLD? And hello we can bold other words. That's only going to be frustrating.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

*death* I have no idea what they thought would happen! Are other deleted journals also bold, or only the ones that they themselves deleted?

Also, redbutnotrobin, strangemystique have been added to the list of RP journals that joined fandom_counts. But I know there are still more RP journals that I've used that I just can't think of!

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Still, I don't think it'll help. :(

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think it's helpful insofar as we actually have a number to point at when we say that fandom is involved, fandom has paying journals, etc, etc. Also went and added some more to the list -- I think that I'm going to make a journal post just about all the RP accounts I didn't realize I had.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

That's a good point.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

...30 RP accounts, of which 15 belong to the YGO fandom. And apart from that, I know that I have more accounts, like verdantargent that just didn't show up for either list so must be registered with a different e-mail address.

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LJ must have lost its bloody mind

That should be an icon.