Oh, for Heaven's Sake...

[liz_marcs]

Dear 6A/LJ,

When I said I wanted clarification of your policies, this was not what I meant.

I meant clarification, not "the ToS hasn't really changed" followed by a bunch of vague statements that still doesn't actually say anything and still doesn't clarify what is and is not acceptable on LJ.

In case you're wondering, the issue is all about how you are interpreting the ToS. Since we can't read minds, we need you to tell us point blank. Which you're not.

And no, we're not whining. This is what happens when your user base has stopped trusting you. We're looking for loopholes where you could conceivably screw us over. This is about protecting ourselves, which obviously clashes with your need to protect your interests.

Really, the comments to the post say it better than I can at this point.

Look, answers in blunt English would be good here. Even if they're answers I don't like, something more than these vague statements and transparency that's about as transparent as mud is not an answer.

*throws up hands*

So much for that clarification...

Comments

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

Everybody can relax! The moment we've all been waiting for has finally come:

LJ has given paid members the ability to be notified when someone defriends you.

Thank God. This will come in so handy, being made aware when someone I probably didn't even realize was on my flist decides to reject me, so I can properly get in his/her face and demand to know why I'm suddenly not good enough for them anymore...

Hmm... I seem to have become distracted. Wasn't I upset about something before?

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

*Snerk* :-)

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Pfft... I've just gotten in the habit of refreshing my friends list in Semagic regularly now that people defriend me more often. It's easy, it also catches when someone adds me, it has a full list of friends with pastable links, and it's FREE! But now I feel the unlove all the time, instead of just once a month when I get bored and decide to check it.

[jakeexperience.livejournal.com]

Don't worry too much about being friendzed or defriendzed.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Right. Because that's not going to cause drama at all.

Damn. Don't we already have Joule that lets us keep track of this anyway if we really want to know?

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I have to wonder if they aren't sort of hoping to distract enough people with the unnecessary wank this will cause to further erode the questioning and suspicion they are experiencing.

[alicettlg.livejournal.com]

And this defriending notice will work so well with the new automated abuse reporting system! Just think of the possibilities, John defriends Mary, Mary suddenly finds John's LJ to have objectionable content and clicks a little button to report his LJ....over and over and over today, tomorrow, the next day, the day after that....

Life will be so much easier for the LJ abuse team!

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not worried. If I were worried, I'd be so very emo, because it happens so often!

Speaking of friendzed, I noticed you're a fan of many of the same things I'm a fan of, and you've got the cutest picture of Sakura and Tomoyo there.

[jakeexperience.livejournal.com]

I think then that I should probably add you to my list of contacts then. ^_^