What on earth, LJ?

[kyrielle]

news has become a random splat of happenings on the site and sponsor ad placements, in addition to minimal site news, instead of focussing on site news.

Enh.

But the latest one? Seriously, what were you thinking, LJ? Titling the bit about your war on spambots as "The empire strikes back"...uh, you do realize which side was supposed to be the good guys there, right?

And blocking 30,000 accounts in a single day for being spam bots doesn't give me warm fuzzies. It tells me that you're frantically smacking things down, too fast for me to know whether I trust that you're identifying only spam bots, and if you are identifying only spam bots then boy have you got a problem of epic proportions. Which, no, the fact that you knocked them back out doesn't make me happy they got in, nor impressed.

But really. The empire strikes back?

Comments

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

They should bring back invite codes.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally missed the headers. I probably didn't notice them because they're in bold (odd, but true). That is amusing.

I went over the comments, which annoyed me. Saw someone commenting about how people shouldn't complain when pictures aren't cut who outright said it doesn't cause problems for visually impaired people. It made me wonder which orifice he pulled that factoid out of (interesting note, the word "factoid" originally meant a small "fact" that was believed, but not true or something close to that, but the implication was that it was false). Which meant I had to comment. While not all pictures will cause me problems, anything that stretches my page makes it really difficult to read my friends page. One of the most common reasons for me to skim entries is they wound up on the same page as an entry with a large photo. (I pretty much have only one friend who posts any photos uncut, and I haven't wanted to complain to her or remove her, even though I know I have those options.)

I can't speak for all VI impaired people, but I certainly can speak for myself and say that uncut photos can cause a problem for people with vision problems.