Here's that screen capture of the Hyperlink Discussion with LJAbuse

[liz_marcs]

When yaochi suggested that I Screen Capture the actual LJ Support/Abuse conversation, I felt like hitting myself in the head.

Yes. A screen capture proves that I not only had the conversation, but that Alice of LJAbuse really said what she had said.

Read the previous entry so you can have the full context behind the discussion

Warning: Huuuuuuge image underneath the LJ Cut

Comments

[zarq.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those prolific links posters you mention, although I'm pretty sure my Technorati rank is far, far higher than 3,000. :)

Lord, that damned TOS needs to be fixed. I wish to hell they'd do so.

Even if the policy Alice is laying out were to be established in a formal TOS, then I suspect I'd still have a problem with it, and not just because it would mean I'd have to delete all of my posts under the "Article Archive" tag, either. At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, a link to material which is hosted elsewhere is by definition a link to material that is not hosted on livejournal. Legally, do they have a right to block us from linking to material they don't host? Does this mean I could be prevented from simply linking to news articles that someone has copyrighted? Where does it end?

They set up clear guidelines for their users. Until they do that, and place that guarantee Alice mentions into their formal terms of service policy (that we won't be penalized for an honest mistake,) then the entire deck is unfairly stacked in their favor. And it's not as if we've been given the least reason to trust them, either.

Thank you for keeping us updated about all the nuances of this issue. I know I haven't commented much, but I've been watching with quite a bit of interest.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Fabulous.

ARGH!

[eclipsed-sky.livejournal.com]

I understand your frustration, LJ is so frustrating at the moment. I had a request going about Self Harm and the rules about it. Anyway I had like 4 different people talking to me and no one giving me an answer.