I'm not sure I get the analogy, but then I'm knocked up and forbidden coffee so I don't get much these days. :p I don't know enough about other tools to know what locks they do or don't have, but I don't blame lj for how people use it. I blame people for being stupid. I choose not to view lj like a hammer, hence I don't see all problems as nails. I control my user experience, and I just remove the people who are remotely tard-like to me. My locks are my right to limit my contact with people who use lj in a manner that annoys me. And it works. My lj experience is by and large a positive one. I don't surround myself with annoying stupid people in my rl, why would I populate my lj with people who behave in an annoying, stupid manner?
I just wish they'd re-name the whole 'friends' bit. I could SO do without the accompanying drama from people who dranatard like the world is coming to an end when you decide you don't want to read what they write anymore, or don't have time to, or whatever. If we don't talk on the phone, email, snail mail, chat or interact in any way outside of lj we are not friends. LJ would be so much simpler if we could just refer to it as our subscriber base instead of friends, with all the accompanying baggage that goes with that word.
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Re: a metaphor, if you will
Date: 2006-10-16 03:00 pm (UTC)I just wish they'd re-name the whole 'friends' bit. I could SO do without the accompanying drama from people who dranatard like the world is coming to an end when you decide you don't want to read what they write anymore, or don't have time to, or whatever. If we don't talk on the phone, email, snail mail, chat or interact in any way outside of lj we are not friends. LJ would be so much simpler if we could just refer to it as our subscriber base instead of friends, with all the accompanying baggage that goes with that word.