For me personally, my problem is the way they handled the situation. Their second post should have been their first: "we need to do this, it is a business decision." Brad had always said that there wouldn't be ads on LJ. As a grownup, I understand that that's not practical, it can't be that way forever. But they should have known that because that was the historical take on the subject, that there would be backlash now that that's changing. So they tried to . . . not mention it? Did they think no one would notice? They were going to have to deal with a lot of upset users eventually. It would have made more sense to be straight with the users from the start.
They just did a REALLY SHITTY job of handling the situation. Either they don't know who LiveJournal users are, or they don't care, and either way it's pretty lame.
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Date: 2008-03-14 04:24 pm (UTC)They just did a REALLY SHITTY job of handling the situation. Either they don't know who LiveJournal users are, or they don't care, and either way it's pretty lame.