Instead, I'm only burnt out.
Yes, I am posting today. On two journals, no less. One of them isn't even a paid account. And I'm leaving comments. If you're gonna "boycott" or strike or whatever, do it for something that actually makes a difference. Seriously. The rest is just mental masturbation.
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I love the power of the intarnets!
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I get paid for overtime, but the simple fact is that you can only work for so many hours every week for months on end before it has a psychological impact.
And usually not a good one.
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Thank you! This boycott thing is honestly stupid. Its not like they're forcing paid accounts, just Plus accounts. Hell, I have a plus account and *gasp* Ad-Blocker! I don't see the adds, and I get all the benefits.
LJ is a company after all. They have to make money somehow. How many people do you figure have free accounts? A lot of them. A few ad banners aren't going to kill anyone.
Slacktivism like that works on, say, Facebook, but that's because it's much more volatile than a long lived blogging network. People are willing to change social networks faster than their underwear (remember Friendster?) so when 10,000 people click onto some group related to terms of service changes, the site will respond.
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Now, if they started forcing all the old accounts to be ad based ones, and actively removed posts about ad blockers, then I could justify a mass revolt from the site. Otherwise, it's all drama whores.
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