Icons: bah!

[spudtater]

Edit: Originally posted on Livejournal

Well, I've got fed up of the breastfeeding icon. I think public interest has all but petered out, which is a shame. I'm disappointed and disillusioned in LJ because whenever they come up with something to which their users have strong objections, their plan of attack appears to be:

1) Assign an employee with "a personal interest" in the subject, who agrees very strongly with the complaining users about something. (E.g. "breastfeeding is good" or "advertisments are annoying"). Have them make a post, inviting users to "discuss the problem" and "work out a solution". Perhaps even reply to one or two of the easier-to-answer comments.

2) Meanwhile, ignore all this and do whatever they planned to do in the first place.

So yes, for LiveJournal SixApart, "working out a solution" appears to mean "persuade our users to change their minds, not us ours".

I currently have a paid account. I don't use much of the extra features, but in the past I have felt that it is worth it anyway, to support a fascinating community and an excellent company. I no longer feel this way, and consequently LJ will not continue to get my money. (Erm, well, technically it isn't my money, since the paid account was a gift, but you know what I mean.)   8^]

Comments

[gominokouhai]

So, it sounds like you're annoyed with LJ for the same reasons that I'm annoyed with the Government (cf. my entire LJ). The difference is that when LJ does it, we get a marginally more restricted environment in which to post our goth poetry. When the Government does it, Mister Bigglesworth gets upset, and when Mister Bigglesowrth gets upset people DIE.

I still maintain there are a near-infinite number of more important things to get worked up about.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

I was under the mistaken impression that it could be more than just a place to post goth poetry. Obviously I deserve to be ridiculed for this shocking lack of cynicism. Silly me.

*rolls eyes*

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Yes, they do seem to be remarkably unresponsive to reasonable feedback.

Bah.

[neuralbuddha.livejournal.com]

Apart from my well-known attitude towards LJ in general, this fails to surpise me for a couple of reasons. First, that this is the general attitude of any large company or indeed that of most of the landlords that I have ever had. "Well, everyone else seems happy enough,". Also LJ has a number of highly prominent, well known and privacy diminishing bugs which, considering its amateur hacker origins, I would have expected to be fixed long ago out of sheer professional pride, if nothing else. Take the friends only post / calendar bug, for example.