What can brown do for you?

[laughingman]

I was on LJ, but left due to people being asshats. I joined again recently, and still found asshattery... but from LJ as well as from the peeps.

I mean, the whole layout has changed, it's a pain in the ass to use now, and when I left LJ the first time, DW wasn't really that active.

Now it is though. Woo boy!

I haven't heard a lot of the recent crap, so I'd like to hear your stories.
What all has LJ done to piss you off? Is it letting stalkers go free (while you get a bad rep from the Support team who then ignores all your support tickets afterwards while stalking continues)?
The new layout? The way they're more business-oriented and not user-friendly like they used to be?

What pisses you off in particular? Why are you glad you joined DW?

Comments

[mrs_tribble]

I could be wrong about that then, but I'm aware that staff members *were* trolling journals, including unlocking locked posts. I sort of know the person who posted a photo of herself and a friend, on a f'locked post, only to find it magically public and an LJ staffer leaving a creepy "I see you" comment.

[dbskyler]

Was that the creepy post that LJ staffer dnewhall did? I've heard a little about that.

[travelingmonkey]

Yes, that incident was him, not brenden.

[mrs_tribble]

Yes, that name certainly rings a bell.

LJ News also started banning people who objected to the changes and the trolling from the comm rather than listen to what the people paying for their service had to say. It was at this point that I told them (on the thread where people were complaining) that, after almost eight years as a paid member, they wouldn't be getting another penny out of me.

I'm not bashing Livejournal as an entire entity, but certain individuals running the site simply should not be running any site that deals with real people. That's why I came over here.

PS: Icon love!