Oh, no doubt at all they handled it badly, but as one of your articles said, a lot of the success of the fuss and anti-complaints was because of the feed itself.
On LJ, when there's a serious issue of complaint, the fen need to get riled up and it needs to actually be posted. Which made the success of the group set up almost a given, people don't like change, especially change they weren't expecting. Imagine what would have happened if every time someone joined no_lj_ads or even scienceofsuck, their entire friends list new.
We'd have been swamped automatically, regardless. I shudder to think really, doubt we'd have had as much staff feedback in the way we did if we'd had thousands of members all screaming about every minor slight.
Like I said, I signed up a month ago, started using it three weeks ago, and picked it up again when a colleague added me. From a new user perspective now, it's damn good, and the usability scores highly as well; I do get lost on occasions, but nowhere near as often as I still do on LJ.
On the equal thing, it would be nice to have better filter groups though, a few people are on 'limited profile' for me, but I'm not really sure what that means, I may need to set up a second account just to figure out some of the privacy stuff.
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Date: 2007-Mar-21, Wednesday 20:33 (UTC)On LJ, when there's a serious issue of complaint, the fen need to get riled up and it needs to actually be posted. Which made the success of the group set up almost a given, people don't like change, especially change they weren't expecting. Imagine what would have happened if every time someone joined
We'd have been swamped automatically, regardless. I shudder to think really, doubt we'd have had as much staff feedback in the way we did if we'd had thousands of members all screaming about every minor slight.
Like I said, I signed up a month ago, started using it three weeks ago, and picked it up again when a colleague added me. From a new user perspective now, it's damn good, and the usability scores highly as well; I do get lost on occasions, but nowhere near as often as I still do on LJ.
On the equal thing, it would be nice to have better filter groups though, a few people are on 'limited profile' for me, but I'm not really sure what that means, I may need to set up a second account just to figure out some of the privacy stuff.