"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

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

I went looking for your comment, and finally found it on page 7 of 31. (Question: is there a simple means for searching for LJ-users' comments, as opposed to their journal entries?). I read through the responses, and then decided to check out his journal. (For those interested, it's ejrobbins.)

I was flabbergasted, both with the misrepresentation of those who'd responded to him, and then with the "I was just fuckin' with y'all!" USENET Excuse #47 For Poor Debating Skills. I'm still pondering on whether I should comment on his journal, but I'm leaning more toward the it's-be-a-waste-of-time POV. Part of me wants to be snarky, but that's exactly what he wants -- I've seen that "I'll post whatever I want, whether I believe it or not, and nothing anyone else has to say will ever touch me!" pose before, and it's simply boring.

<Forrest Gump>
And that's all I have to say about that.
</Forrest Gump>

[almeda.livejournal.com]

They've deliberately failed to implement functionality to hit someone's userinfo, frex, and say 'Show me all their comments.' It's a privacy issue; just think if you commented a lot in, say, BDSM journals, and didn't want some of the people on your friends list to know.