Even if I agreed with the action (which I don't), I really wouldn't trust the efficacy of a group of people who don't actually know what the action they're organising _is_.
Also, they were boycotting LJ because A) LJ weren't great at informing users about changes they were making, and B) LJ filtered (not censored; that's another misnomer/misunderstanding of the terms) some interests on the "Most Popular Interests" page. LJ addressed both issues _before_ the boycott went ahead.
In addition, the boycott was arranged, presumably from the UK (based on the fact that it was scheduled by GMT), for a day which is a bank holiday, and on which posting is expected to be down anyway. That seems to me to be a rather dishonest way of trying to make it look more effective and more widespread than it actually was.
Plus, the boycotters managed to annoy a fair number of people, many of whom deliberately posted extra yesterday, specifically in order to counteract any effect the boycott might have. If you're going to try and have a negative impact on the figures, it's probably a good idea to get people on your side, rather than pissing them off, so they handled the whole thing monumentally badly.
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Date: 2008-03-22 08:04 pm (UTC)Even if I agreed with the action (which I don't), I really wouldn't trust the efficacy of a group of people who don't actually know what the action they're organising _is_.
Also, they were boycotting LJ because A) LJ weren't great at informing users about changes they were making, and B) LJ filtered (not censored; that's another misnomer/misunderstanding of the terms) some interests on the "Most Popular Interests" page. LJ addressed both issues _before_ the boycott went ahead.
In addition, the boycott was arranged, presumably from the UK (based on the fact that it was scheduled by GMT), for a day which is a bank holiday, and on which posting is expected to be down anyway. That seems to me to be a rather dishonest way of trying to make it look more effective and more widespread than it actually was.
Plus, the boycotters managed to annoy a fair number of people, many of whom deliberately posted extra yesterday, specifically in order to counteract any effect the boycott might have. If you're going to try and have a negative impact on the figures, it's probably a good idea to get people on your side, rather than pissing them off, so they handled the whole thing monumentally badly.