LJ Homepage Tweak

[deathpixie]

For those, like me, who feel that if they'd wanted [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] spam they'd have joined the community, there is a solution. And if you don't use Firefox (like my work computer) and can't use the adblock app, never fear, you can do the Cyrillic part and just render it incomprehensible! (if it wasn't already with the amount of L33T speak they use any way /curmudgeonly old person).

And for what it's worth, the change irritated me, but what really annoys me is the behaviour of the comm's owners and members on [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. They've shown exactly how childish and self-entitled they are and have succeeded in making me determined to never go near the site. Way to make LJ look like utter morons for choosing your site as the homepage feature, idiots.

Edit: Trying out the repost feature, which I found via [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] buried under all the crap.

Comments

[evilwildlex.livejournal.com]

O_O Yeah, I saw some of the users there and was just baffled by how asshatted they were being to people who were just saying they wanted to be able to opt out of the ONTD posts.

And they kept using the argument "We make LJ money"....uh, no. Paid users make LJ money. The amount that they generate from ads probably doesn't even cover the cost of all the bandwidth their content (especially with all the animated gifs) generates.

[deathpixie]

I know - even those who were saying "I'm on ONTD and I don't think this is cool" were getting trolled. What I couldn't believe was it was the mods doing most of the trolling.

I wound up emailing LJ Feedback about them and the homepage thing. I doubt anything will come of it, but hey, at least I didn't just bitch, right?

[evilwildlex.livejournal.com]

I've contemplated making a community entitled something like "saynoto_ontd". If I did, though, I'd have to restrict posting access. The point of the community would be to show a large collection of LJ users voting 'no' to having to see ONTD posts, and I would put "this is not a community for bashing ONTD or its users" as rule #1. Most of the community's content would be stuff like how to not have to see the posts, and who in LJ to contact to complain about it. Seems like the only way to do it without having to deal with pro-ONTD trolls.

[deathpixie]

Yeah, the only other option is to encourage everyone to email LJ Feedback and complain... Hey, you could always start the community and have as the sole post a poll with "Do you want to have an opt-out option for the ONTD feed on the homepage?" and lock comments. It might be interesting to see who wins, anti-ONTD or pro.

[evilwildlex.livejournal.com]

I think I'd want to have the information on exactly how to contact LJ about not wanting ONTD on the homepage, as well as the information you linked to.

But the poll is a good idea.

[deathpixie]

*nods* Oh, definitely those two bits as well.