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Tomorrow's Content Strike
Mar. 20th, 2008 01:15 pmI will not be participating in LJ tomorrow, due to the content strike.
This is more than a little strange for me; my conservative leanings don't tend toward sympathy with strikers in general, as I tend to view them as a bunch of whiners with a sense of entitlement. However, when confronted with a picket line, I do not cross one without at least finding out what the grievance is. Sometimes, I respect the picket.
Usually, when one refuses to cross a picket line, that does not mean that one is joining the picket line. In this case, refusal to cross is tantamount to joining.
And you know what? This time, I'm okay with that.
I didn't really care that Basic Accounts were cancelled. I didn't care that some interests were removed from a "Popular Interests" page which I didn't even know existed.
But the way SUP has ham-handedly handled the reactions has been nothing short of despicable. They have recognized that their money (in the future) is going to come from advertizing more than paid subcriptions, but they are utterly failing to recognize that the thing they have to sell to advertizers is our eyeballs, which are drawn here by each others' content. Pissing off your content-providers will mean that you have nothing to sell to your advertizers.
So stop pissing us off.
This is more than a little strange for me; my conservative leanings don't tend toward sympathy with strikers in general, as I tend to view them as a bunch of whiners with a sense of entitlement. However, when confronted with a picket line, I do not cross one without at least finding out what the grievance is. Sometimes, I respect the picket.
Usually, when one refuses to cross a picket line, that does not mean that one is joining the picket line. In this case, refusal to cross is tantamount to joining.
And you know what? This time, I'm okay with that.
I didn't really care that Basic Accounts were cancelled. I didn't care that some interests were removed from a "Popular Interests" page which I didn't even know existed.
But the way SUP has ham-handedly handled the reactions has been nothing short of despicable. They have recognized that their money (in the future) is going to come from advertizing more than paid subcriptions, but they are utterly failing to recognize that the thing they have to sell to advertizers is our eyeballs, which are drawn here by each others' content. Pissing off your content-providers will mean that you have nothing to sell to your advertizers.
So stop pissing us off.
