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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!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly? Most of the time it isn't. As someone already said, they tend to treat the minorities they claim to be 'helping' as animals or things that are to be examined, and as if they have no voices or ability to defend themselves of their own. Which, at least in my opinion, is pretty bigoted in it's own right. Particularly when they'll attack the very people they claim to be defending because that person disagrees with them.

They also have a habit of turning the social justice cause into a stick to beat anyone who has a different opinion of them with, even in things that aren't related to social justice. For example: You like a pairing I don't like? You must be '-insert 'ist' here-'! Of course, they dress it up with different words, and sometimes it does touch on a real issue, but the fact they tend to draw social justice into things for reasons completely unrelated to social justice still stands.

A more concrete example might be the fact I've seen them call someone a racist for shipping an interracial couple - even though, as the person explained, their reason for shipping that pairing had *nothing* to do with the races of the characters involved. The person who was calling racist, by the way, happened to *not* ship that particular pairing...and, in fact, ship a 'rival' pairing for one of the characters.

They also have a nasty habit of taking over conversations that have nothing to do with social justice ['Oh hey, what did you all think of the latest chapter/episode/thing-a-character did?'] and turning it into a social justice conversation - which wouldn't be a bad thing, except that a fair amount of the time they claim that people who want to stick with the original topic are an 'ist'.

So, all in all? No. It really doesn't tend to be a positive feature.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a metric fucktonne of them here on LJ too, though. So you have to deal with SJ trolls either way, don't you?