I trimmed my list. (And sent off appropriate notes to those that I felt obliged to remove, for one reason or another.) It’s sad, because I really liked those folks, but *TIME AND TIME AGAIN* there’s involvement with a LJ drama. That seems counterproductive. This whole “you’re friends with X, so you can’t be friends with Y” nonsense is right out of grade 2. So, forget it. I’m sure I’ll be adding some back later (If they’ll have me). but for now, I’m just not dealing with it. Lakme pulled that silly stuff with folks I liked reading last time around. I still sometimes wonder if she ever confessed in her journal to her colossal mistake, and character assassination. I figure the current hot air will stop blowing in a few days…. but it seems its the same group of people every time. I wonder if a more permanent decision isn’t more reasonable. A shame so many of them are so likeable. A couple of rotten apples wreck the party for everyone…(If I’m allowed to mix cliche & metaphor… it’s my journal. I’ll say yeah.)

fixer upper update, from here – http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=9601466&nc=115

The more controversial thing is that we’re probably going to limit the number of posts/day and comments/post for free users. We have to decide between the lesser of the evils — limits or having a site that always appears to suck.[1]

[1] Update: Relax, everybody … we’re not “cutting off” free users. Stop freaking out … we understand why LJ is a successful community (we made it, afterall) and we’re not going to do anything to bastardize it. Any “limits” we impose will be reasonable… we always collect stats before imposing limits such that 90% or so of people remain unaffected. The limits we’re talking about here are temporary ones, to ease the free db servers until the new ones arrive on the 1st

you know… i’d have posted a lot more this last week if the client was able to reach the host.

ah well, I’ll transfer stuff from dj to here eventually.

I’m going to try reinstalling it, per Jen’s suggestion.

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=8796814&nc=20

an excellent commentary by bandicoot about what’s been going on in LJville lately.

How can you manage the finances without a reasonable campaign to promote paid accounts and ensure a reliable stream of income? The present percentage of paid accounts is flat-out embarrassing. At some point, hardware requirements aside, paid full-time employees are going to be necessary to keep LJ running, and you can’t do that without a better paid-user base. And that requires financial management that is currently non-existent.

If LJ doesn’t get good, coherent management soon, it’s going to bog down and die. And that would be a real shame. – a quote from same message.

My emergency plan… either here – http://scottobear.com/blog/blog.html

or here – http://www.deadjournal.com/~scottobear

just in case LJ has a case of the stinkies today. I hope they get their act together soon, though. (I prefer deadjournal… same goonsquad atmosphere…)

but blogger has a nice post proggie. (Mind you, livejournal will be my permanent journal.. I have a lifetime account… but I’m going to have a backup plan.)

Here’s the thing.

Reasons for Scotto to trim his friend’s list.

1. If the person posts stuff I think will get me in trouble at work. (Nudity, porn links without warning or such)
2. Excessive foul language (seeing f-this and f-that f-the other)
3. Nothing in common, or we never talk
4. My List is too big, and I had to trim somewhere.
5. General Mean-spiritedness
6. I Never see posts in the journal anymore
7. I see 10000 one-line posts in a journal, I’ll generally remove them, because it hampers my ability to read the rest of the folks I link to.

I’ve gone past my limit of reading again, and broken my rule of ‘add one, remove two’ links. It hurts, because there are a lot of nice people out there, but I simply just cannot keep up with everybody. most of my trimming is due to reasons number 1-4.

My goal is never to hurt someones feelings, and even when I do trim my list, I’ll probably go back every now and then to peek and catch up, when I get a chance to catch a breath. I hope I don’t hurt anyone’s feelings during this process.

That being said, I’m *still* trying to trim my list further down. I don’t know what I’m a-gonna do about this.