when assholes play grown-up

[piranha]

no wonder LJ has such a lousy reputation outside of its own little sphere. i had never quite realized why that is, being as my circle of actual friends stems from other places, and is not infested with the sort of major drama that seems common around here.

i don't mind doing abuse work at all; i am good at it and i neither look down on the users or feel i need to protect them and help them harbour illusions about what keeping a public journal means. but when the owner behaves as unprofessional as this one has since i've been paying attention, and when one of his employees thinks that's all just dandy, then i begin to see why this place is shunned by some whose opinion i value.

*retch*. it'll be somewhat less fun to do abuse from now on. and i am no longer sure i can last long in that endeavour. in fact i am thinking of quitting right now. funny, eh? i was sure the users couldn't get to me, and they haven't. it didn't even occur to me that the real crap would come from a completely different side.

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[redbird]

I thought about saying, in that thread, that I trust the Abuse team because I know a few of them. Not sure if that would help or hurt, there: but yes, I trust you and Gwyneth and Jay and Rahaeli, and by extension Abuse as a group.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

thank you. that matters. i think the team bends over backwards to do the right thing, if we can figure it out. which isn't always easy, and yes, mistakes are made, and we could probably institute procedures to avoid more of them, or catch more of them sooner.

of course most users don't realize that our primary task is to keep LJ out of legal trouble. i wonder what there he doesn't trust. as far as i know, he hasn't been sued lately, so we must be doing something right. but maybe he is confused, since he doesn't seem to read his own policies. if instead he wanted us to make most people's LJ experience a better one, he'd junk his "free speech ueber alles" ideas and crack down on the very abusers who whine to him about how power-hungry the abuse team is. it's a tiny percentage of people who louse it up for a great number of others.

this is such a joke, really.