I repeat my question, what do you call it if a group of people who are providing volunteer contributions withdraw their free labour? But that's not what was going on here. LJ _does_ have some volunteers, but they work in support. The members pay for their accounts (or have free ones, or ones fuelled by ads), but the posting itself is a hobby. If people stop doing their hobby, it's not a strike, even if the hobby shops rely on those hobbyists for their income.
The only people I saw objecting to the term wouldn't know a collective bargaining agreement if one crawled into their sinuses and took a shit. *heh* I guess we saw different people objecting.
"I don't get it and I disagree with it, so I'm going to be an asshole about it."
No, not really; more "You're making a big fuss about taking this action while not actually explaining why you're taking it, which makes you look like stroppy kids who are taking their ball and going home for no clearly-defined reason, and expecting everyone to admire you for doing so; well, fuck that, I shall carry on playing, and enjoy the extra space created by your vacating the premises."
Let's be fair, if you're posting a message all over the place saying "Everyone should join in this pseudo-political action", you do actually need to explain why they should do so, and what the benefits are likely to be. The people organising the strike failed to do that, and in fact seemed fairly poorly-informed about the issues they were supposedly "striking" over, which is bound to lose people's respect.
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But that's not what was going on here. LJ _does_ have some volunteers, but they work in support. The members pay for their accounts (or have free ones, or ones fuelled by ads), but the posting itself is a hobby. If people stop doing their hobby, it's not a strike, even if the hobby shops rely on those hobbyists for their income.
The only people I saw objecting to the term wouldn't know a collective bargaining agreement if one crawled into their sinuses and took a shit.
*heh* I guess we saw different people objecting.
"I don't get it and I disagree with it, so I'm going to be an asshole about it."
No, not really; more "You're making a big fuss about taking this action while not actually explaining why you're taking it, which makes you look like stroppy kids who are taking their ball and going home for no clearly-defined reason, and expecting everyone to admire you for doing so; well, fuck that, I shall carry on playing, and enjoy the extra space created by your vacating the premises."
Let's be fair, if you're posting a message all over the place saying "Everyone should join in this pseudo-political action", you do actually need to explain why they should do so, and what the benefits are likely to be. The people organising the strike failed to do that, and in fact seemed fairly poorly-informed about the issues they were supposedly "striking" over, which is bound to lose people's respect.