"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

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

I got curious about the comment, so I went looking for it. Call me crazy... well, you do already. :) (And at my request, so I am being disingenuous...)

I trawled through 7 of 19+ pages to find redbird's comment (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=news&itemid=63413&thread=3309493) - looks like the post you replied to was deleted. By the admin or the poster who couldn't take the heat? (me-yow)

The number of posts is up to 1450+ as I type. I figured I'd get an entertaining enough sample by the search for redbird's comment - long live the "find" function in this browser! :)

Crazy(the limits only make sense, although I did see someone assert the limits on paid users was bait-and-switch. Sheeesh, I've done 4 posts in a 24 hour period, and worried that it was excessive...)Soph

[redbird]

I think the person I commented to deleted it, based on the comment I saw from him a little while later--apparently it hadn't occurred to him that people would explain why he was wrong.

#1 Law Of Public Debate

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

That one has an opinion at all in no way, shape, or form renders that opinion immune to criticism or response.

SO many folks need to learn that simple concept. It's weird, how A can write "I like Pepsi", B can respond, "I prefer Coke to Pepsi", and A will retort "HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN MY FREE SPEACH[sic]?!?!?!?!?!?" (except that they won't use the word "impugn", as they think it's a foreign dog breed).