"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

[papersky.livejournal.com]

No, I don't want to download and install stuff, I'm using Linux and it's a pain in the neck.

I'll probably just stop using LJ very much, just using it to read my Friends list and make non-anonymous comments. I've only been using it for a few months, I can manage perfectly well without if the way I want to use it isn't the way they want me to use it.

I had been planning to get a paid account, but now I feel steamrollered into getting one whether I want to or not, which makes me reluctant to.

I just came in from going to the bank, and I was going to post "went to bank, bought lifesaving tangerines" and didn't feel I should post such trivia if there are only 5 posts allowed in 24 hours, and if I'm feeling like that, I may as well not bother.

Why is it number of posts, as opposed to bandwidth? There are people posting huge pictures.

[redbird]

I think (as in, I'm not sure) that people were deliberately hitting the servers with lots and lots of posts as a denial-of-service thing, and each post is a certain amount of load on the servers and the database. Also, the photos don't use much LiveJournal bandwidth--all that LiveJournal receives, or sends, is a URL pointing to the offsite location where the pictures actually live.

I hope you change your mind--I like reading your posts, both the long, thoughtful stuff and the trivia.