>>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.
That allegory would work if LJ had content that was independent of users, but it doesn't. If the posting stops, not only do the customers go away, but so does the inventory.
A better comparison is an on-line magazine where the writers don't get paid. No writers = no magazine.
*heh* I guess we saw different people objecting.
Entirely possible. The only objections I saw were from white-collar IT workers who got all het up about "appropriation".
I come from a long line of blue-collar workers. My family has been through strikes, and I've voted in favour of walk-outs. I roll my eyes at their righteous indignation.
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.
No argument there. It wasn't clearly articulated.
And to be clear, I have no issue with the people who said it made no sense to them or that they disagreed with it and so they were just going to carry on as usual. I do have a problem with a lot of the FUCK YOU NA-NA-NA YOU CAN'T STOP ME HAHA YOO SUCK posting.
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>>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.
That allegory would work if LJ had content that was independent of users, but it doesn't. If the posting stops, not only do the customers go away, but so does the inventory.
A better comparison is an on-line magazine where the writers don't get paid. No writers = no magazine.
*heh* I guess we saw different people objecting.
Entirely possible. The only objections I saw were from white-collar IT workers who got all het up about "appropriation".
I come from a long line of blue-collar workers. My family has been through strikes, and I've voted in favour of walk-outs. I roll my eyes at their righteous indignation.
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.
No argument there. It wasn't clearly articulated.
And to be clear, I have no issue with the people who said it made no sense to them or that they disagreed with it and so they were just going to carry on as usual. I do have a problem with a lot of the FUCK YOU NA-NA-NA YOU CAN'T STOP ME HAHA YOO SUCK posting.