fickle: (politics: stop censorship)
Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-08-03 09:51 am

LJ's at it again.

[livejournal.com profile] 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.

[livejournal.com profile] elaboration has also been deleted, and she had a completely flocked journal.

I have no idea what [livejournal.com profile] elaboration had on her journal but [livejournal.com profile] 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.

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

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Do it! XD I signed up [livejournal.com profile] dice_addict, [livejournal.com profile] thesirenremixed, [livejournal.com profile] golden_psycho, [livejournal.com profile] quietwatcher, [livejournal.com profile] darkreflected, [livejournal.com profile] linearlogic, [livejournal.com profile] shoppingtherapy -- and then got temporarily banned from logging in when I couldn't remember the password for [livejournal.com profile] 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."

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
HOW DO THEY THINK WE WOULDN'T NOTICE THE BOLD? And hello we can bold other words. That's only going to be frustrating.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
*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, [livejournal.com profile] redbutnotrobin, [livejournal.com profile] strangemystique have been added to the list of RP journals that joined [livejournal.com profile] fandom_counts. But I know there are still more RP journals that I've used that I just can't think of!

[identity profile] a-white-rain.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Still, I don't think it'll help. :(

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-08-03 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
...30 RP accounts, of which 15 belong to the YGO fandom. And apart from that, I know that I have more accounts, like [livejournal.com profile] verdantargent that just didn't show up for either list so must be registered with a different e-mail address.

[identity profile] xinda.livejournal.com 2007-08-09 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
LJ must have lost its bloody mind

That should be an icon.