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Since people pointed out Saturday isn't enough time to see what LJ is doing with this or about this, moved the potential moving date to New Years' - 1/1/2012.

[Poll #1805208]

The other poll is closed and this one will be open until Dec 31st! You can edit your vote by going here.

As a note, I'm completely willing to either stay or move. Updating the comm is easy enough for me either way.

1 - It's not only about subject lines. Others have written up potential problems better than I could:
http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=7005874#t7005874
http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=6261682#t6261682
http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/71858.html?thread=7952050#t7952050

2 - For those worried about possibly needing to make DW accounts to comment, if a move happens: you don't need one! OpenID will let you comment as an LJ user (in the same way Facebook users can comment on LJ).

3 - For those worried about missing updates: I can crosspost to LJ to let you know a post is up (with a handy link over to it), I don't mind that (it's like a minute of extra work, no problem) - if the DW move happens though, the comments would be over there.

4 - Apparently, this is what we're getting next year.

5 - I'm aware workarounds are available - but those (or so I hear?) won't stay available for long. Also, those layouts have their own bugs. If someone can actually supply me with workable code that doesn't make long threads unreadable to change the layout, I'll give it a try.

6 -

raemia has an FAQ up here: http://raemia.livejournal.com/18347.html

7 - Tried the LJ workaround, give me your thoughts? Also contains links to what FS would look like on DW. Feedback on either/both?

8 - http://fandomsecrets.livejournal.com/811020.html?thread=511056908#t511056908 A good summary of the whole thing here by

demarafis.

Today's post is up below!

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No, it's not a positive feature. And by your comment I can tell there's no point in me explaining why. Go over to Dreamwidth and good fucking riddance.

whaat? The only sense I can make of this is that DW doesn't have enough senseless assholery for your tastes.

Fine, I guess I will explain it despite everything in me saying this is a bad idea.

When I say "social justice troll", I do not mean people who are calling out racism/misogyny/homophobia/etc. in order to raise awareness and actually get something good accomplished. "Troll" is the keyword here. By "social justice troll", I mean people who use social justice as a way to bully and harass others and get away with it because they're supposedly doing it for a good cause. The kind of people who tell someone using the word "retarded" in any context that they are horrible people who should go kill themselves for being ableist.

Dreamwidth is full of these kind of people who will jump down your throat and flood your inbox with insults and death threats over a single word, and not even saying you're sorry and you won't do it again is enough to make them stop wishing your house gets hit by a meteor or something.

And for the record, I belong to several of the minorities they claim to be trying to help.

these kind of people who will jump down your throat and flood your inbox with insults

You know, from your earlier reply to me, I'm not really so convinced that this is a problem with them rather than a problem with you. Or is your random hostility an LJ-only thing?

Yep, lost cause, just as I thought. You'll be in great company over there.

lol, you're an ass.

You sound far more like the lost cause here, making up problems that, ooh, don't exist.

I'm with you on this one. I get *more* than enough of the social justice twits running off at the mouth about things they've got minimal real knowledge of outside of fandom. I don't want to deal with them in it. Rather than trying to fight an utterly pointless battle with them, I prefer stay out of the fandom areas where they congregate (like DW). (And please note that there's a difference between the social justice twits with their word vomit and real activists who are working to improve real problems.)