We might forgive. We won't forget.

[chicafrom3]

Well, so. Let's get caught up:

LJ finally puts a statement out. Unfortunately it's a half-assed apology consisting mainly of "Okay, maybe we made a mistake, but it's your fault for making us think you were pedophiles!!!1!"

Or maybe I am being unduly harsh because I have a cold and have been trying to get in to post this entry for over an hour? Your decision.

They've started undeleting communities. Randomly. Apparently some of the actual pedophilia comms are back up, while the fandom and literary groups remain down. Oh, LJ.

On a brighter note, I'd just like to say how proud I am of fandom in general. "The only time het, gen, and yaoi worked together", one of the icons going around says, and that's pretty darn accurate. Even as LJ made me question why I'm here, fandom showed me why it's the best place to be. ♥, guys.

Hopefully LJ and 6A will get their acts together now and 'net life will go on as normal.

Comments

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I'm so far over it. I am satisfied with LiveJournal's response and I am satisfied with the timeframe in which it was given. Sure they could have come out and made a statement immediately, but wouldn't that have been jumping the gun? No? And isn't that the exact thing that got them in to trouble in the first place?

Livejournal does have to take care to please its members, but livejournal is under no obligation, constitutional or otherwise, to allow us do what we do, and say what we say here. This is their house.

They acted hastily and fucked up and now they've admitted it and have taken steps to remedy it. I don't see the point in being angry anymore.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

I'd really, really like to be over it. But I'm sick and grouchy and holding a grudge.

Sure they could have come out and made a statement immediately, but wouldn't that have been jumping the gun?

That's the thing, though. They didn't have to make an actual statement immediately. All they had to do was let us-the-users know that they'd heard our complaints and were looking into it. Before talking to the press. That's what really hurts, they issued several comments to the press while totally ignoring the thousands of comments asking "WTF is going on?"

That and the fact that their apology doesn't actually take any responsibility. :/ That bothers me, too.

Probably I will get over my mad when I get over my cold, but in the meantime...still mad. :(