Phae (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pt_tangles) wrote2008-03-19 06:09 pm
pt_tangles) wrote2008-03-19 06:09 pm
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Content Strike?
I don't know about this. I read the interview SUP's director (to be found HERE), and I have to say that he has a point.
If you pay for your account, then you are a customer of LiveJournal. And I know for a fact that when customers write in to my work threatening me with all kinds of 'boycotts' or 'lawsuits' or 'I'm telling my congressman/the BBB/my mommy on you!' whining crap, I am definitely a lot less interested in going out of my way to help them.
What is that saying? You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Demanding something rather than even trying to work within the system or ask for help is going to make people want to hear you less.
Then there is the fact that a single day boycott won't do anything because there will never be enough people behind it. Just like all of the calls to not buy gas on a certain day.
That's just not how it works. A company will bow to pressure only when they have suffered financially. A single day of not posting won't cost them anything because those of us who have payed accounts have already payed for the year (or month or however you pay).
If you could convince people to stop paying for their accounts for a year, then maybe you would have something that would get their attention. But I just don't think that this will make any difference.
I probably won't post anything during the Content Strike, but it will be a coincidence. I just don't always have the time or inclination to post everyday.
All in all, I don't think that this movement was very well thought out. But, to everyone who wants to be on board, best of luck with it. Who knows, maybe they will care after all.
--Phae
If you pay for your account, then you are a customer of LiveJournal. And I know for a fact that when customers write in to my work threatening me with all kinds of 'boycotts' or 'lawsuits' or 'I'm telling my congressman/the BBB/my mommy on you!' whining crap, I am definitely a lot less interested in going out of my way to help them.
What is that saying? You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Demanding something rather than even trying to work within the system or ask for help is going to make people want to hear you less.
Then there is the fact that a single day boycott won't do anything because there will never be enough people behind it. Just like all of the calls to not buy gas on a certain day.
That's just not how it works. A company will bow to pressure only when they have suffered financially. A single day of not posting won't cost them anything because those of us who have payed accounts have already payed for the year (or month or however you pay).
If you could convince people to stop paying for their accounts for a year, then maybe you would have something that would get their attention. But I just don't think that this will make any difference.
I probably won't post anything during the Content Strike, but it will be a coincidence. I just don't always have the time or inclination to post everyday.
All in all, I don't think that this movement was very well thought out. But, to everyone who wants to be on board, best of luck with it. Who knows, maybe they will care after all.
--Phae