Should I give Six Apart more of my money?

[matgb]

OK, it's that time of year. My paid LJ account expires in 12 days. I like livejournal, I like the community, I like the functions, I like the filtering and the privacy options.

I strongly dislike the management and owners, who, it seems, don't actually like Livejournal, and most certainly don't "get" it. So, should I give them more of my hard earned? Should I switch back to Sponsored? Should I go all FreeBasic?

I'm tempted to pay for a 3 month renewal, but, well, I'm not at all sure. It's the old ethical market consumer in me, I don't like giving money to companies I disapprove of. But I really love the product. Opinions?

Oh, Circus types and a few others would probably be very interested in this post on livejournal_uk...

Comments

[matgb]

Actually, for a logged in user, LJ's comments system is much better than bloggers, across the board. But for a non logged in user, it sucks, that I'll give you.

Alternately, log in using the OpenID thing; a TypeKey identity or a ClaimID identity is very good for that, don't think Blogger supports it yet but it might. Logging in using OpenID is good, as then people can let you read filtered posts that aren't open tot he general public, etc...