[Air-L] Livejournal Troubles?

[Annette Pohlke]

The "troublesome clique of Harry Potter erotica writers" that  
LiveJournal seem to be (in)famous for will be largely unaffected, they  
moved in large numbers to Insanejournal when LiveJournal started to  
enforce bans on erotic content. Just a coincidence or did LiveJournal  
bring down itself when it alienated a large part of its many "users  
with weird obsessions"?


Annette Pohlke



Am 06.01.2009 um 19:56 schrieb Richard Forno:

> FYI....may be nothing, may be fortelling of things to come. Either  
> way, might be wise to consider backing your journals up, those who  
> have them.
>
> Is anyone here more knowledgable about this report involving one of  
> (I think) the more higher-quality social networks than little old me?
>
> --rf
>
>
>
> The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
> By Owen Thomas, 2:24 AM on Tue Jan 6 2009, 28,824 views
>
> The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal,  
> the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has  
> cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're  
> told.
>
> The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known  
> for its users' weird obsessions — like the troublesome clique of  
> Harry Potter erotica writers, whose outré tastes ran afoul of  
> LiveJournal's efforts to comply with U.S. child-pornography laws.  
> (Oddly, the site also gained a following in Russia, which led to its  
> acquisition by Sup.) All that adds up to an environment even more  
> distasteful to advertisers than the typical social site.
>
> The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving  
> only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a  
> website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive  
> hired on last summer, has also left.
>
> < - >
>
> http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network
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