If the posting stops, not only do the customers go away, but so does the inventory. It's not inventory; LJ sell the place to make posts, not the posts themselves. So it's really very like a hobby-shop that sells the wherewithal to do beading or macrame or whatever. Yes, other people might be attracted to a hobby because of what other people make, but the hobby shop doesn't sell the outcome of the hobby; just the stuff you need to make them. If you've already bought your raffia/bakeable clay/yarn, giving up knotting/knitting/modelling for a day is not going on strike.
A better comparison is an on-line magazine where the writers don't get paid. No writers = no magazine.
Except that LJ doesn't sell the magazine, and the writers pay to be allowed to write it. Which is not like any magazine I know of.
The only objections I saw were from white-collar IT workers who got all het up about "appropriation". Personally, I just like people to use the right words. Failing to do so suggests a lack of undestanding of th situation.
I do have a problem with a lot of the FUCK YOU NA-NA-NA YOU CAN'T STOP ME HAHA YOO SUCK posting.
Fair enough; I didn't see any of that, I just saw various people being exasperated with the boycott, and taking a certain amount of pleasure in posting despite it.
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Date: 2008-03-22 09:41 pm (UTC)It's not inventory; LJ sell the place to make posts, not the posts themselves. So it's really very like a hobby-shop that sells the wherewithal to do beading or macrame or whatever. Yes, other people might be attracted to a hobby because of what other people make, but the hobby shop doesn't sell the outcome of the hobby; just the stuff you need to make them. If you've already bought your raffia/bakeable clay/yarn, giving up knotting/knitting/modelling for a day is not going on strike.
A better comparison is an on-line magazine where the writers don't get paid. No writers = no magazine.
Except that LJ doesn't sell the magazine, and the writers pay to be allowed to write it. Which is not like any magazine I know of.
The only objections I saw were from white-collar IT workers who got all het up about "appropriation".
Personally, I just like people to use the right words. Failing to do so suggests a lack of undestanding of th situation.
I do have a problem with a lot of the FUCK YOU NA-NA-NA YOU CAN'T STOP ME HAHA YOO SUCK posting.
Fair enough; I didn't see any of that, I just saw various people being exasperated with the boycott, and taking a certain amount of pleasure in posting despite it.