"Usenet is not a right"

[redbird]

To deal with server overloading, LiveJournal is going to implement limits on posts per user per day. The exact numbers are still under discussion, but it will be more for paid than for free users.

There's been a (predictable) huge amount of shouting in the news journal, which you ought to have on your friends list: http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/

(If I were running LiveJournal, I'd automatically put it on all new users' friends lists, so it was there unless people took it off on purpose.)

I got annoyed enough to type the text of the First Amendment to the US Constitution in a comment, in response to someone who seemed to think it was a violation of his rights that bradfitz isn't giving him unlimited services free. I also asked why he, personally, wasn't paying my ISP bill, and pointed out that the LJ code is open source. Yes, I can be a bitch.

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I looked at the number of comments (600+), and sighed.

The funny thing is that no doubt a huge number of people will bitch, moan, whine, and either 1. get paid accounts, which they will use to complain about LJ or 2. leave LJ for some other journal service, where they will form an "I hate LJ" club and complain about the popup ads on the other site. :P

"HEY IM BR3THING AIR AN IM AN AMURRIKAN SO LIEK I HAV ALL TEHSE RITES AN STUF SO YOU KANT TAEK AWAIE MY FR33 LJ KTHXBYE!!!!!11!!1!!!!one!!!!"

[supergee.livejournal.com]

(2) might raise the average intelligence of both groups.