Do the facts speak for themselves?

[dsrtao]

http://stewardess.livejournal.com/288147.html

(brief summary: LJ has started censoring the results of the http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?view=popular&mode=text Popular Interests report.)

Comments

[jducoeur]

Okay, *that* is a "bloody hell". Of all the mis-steps SUP has made, this is potentially the most serious. I mean, I'm somewhat sympathetic to the deprecation of the Basic plan (admittedly, I'm biased towards understanding the need to monetize the service). In general, I think much of the LJ community is a little over-touchy.

But if this one proves true, it shows a *serious* tone-deafness towards their audience. The US membership of LJ is both geeky and young -- an audience that is very critical of anything that smacks of censorship, especially of personal lifestyle. It's a little thing (and I can easily come up with the arguments for the change), but it's subtly *insulting* of the membership. And it's hard to come up with a dumber move than insulting the members of a social network, especially when you're using open-source software...