liz_marcs: And So It Begins...Again. (The new 6A/LJ journal deletions)

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And So It Begins...Again. (The new 6A/LJ journal deletions)
Have I mentioned that I hate being right? People were calling me (and others like me) hysterical drama queens after the dust of the Great LJ Strikeout of 2007 settled and we were still bitching. And we were called drama queens for warning people off from buying permanent accounts because some of us didn't buy for one second that LJ/6A was sorry.

Sheeyah. Right. I told you so.

But that's not gonna help us now, is it? So down to business.

As some of you no doubt know by now, El-Jay is once more in Your Friends List Deleting Your Friends.

And they're deleting them for the same reason and with as much waring as they did back during the Great LJ Strikeout of 2007...only they're being slightly more careful about it.

Actually, that's not true.

There've been a few rumors for the past two weeks over on InsaneJournal's 07refugees assylum and GreatestJournal's fandomtossed that some journals were being quietly deleted. The highest profile deletion was mightygodking in HP fandom who was TOS'd due to DMCA order (full story here, as well as news that it's not just your main journal that gets deleted, but every journal you've got attached to your LJ email).

This latest purge is starting to grow in scope and size and once more is tackling innocent people in fandom.

Fuck you, 6A/LJ. Fuck you very much.

bubble_blunder has a complete round up of what happened, who it happened to, and why. Definitely a good first stop if you want to get the complete skinny.

innocence_jihad also has a a round-up of links on the latest.

synecdochic offers some suggests as to why 6A/LJ is going wonk-o again. Surprise, surprise, it's due to the current legal climate in the U.S. Hey! Remember the children's daycare witch hunts back in the 80s in the U.S.? You know the ones I mean. The ones where there was supposedly a national ring of Satanists diddling with the CYLDERIN and recruiting them for Satan? What we've got here is the same, only instead of children's daycare, think "social networking sites."

For more information, don't forget to check in regularly with 07refugees on InsaneJournal and Fandomtossed on GreatestJournal.

So, anyone think that it's a concidence that deleted accounts are no longer shown with a strike-through, but with an unlinked bold instead? Or how about the fact that deleted accounts will never, ever show up on your user page until, you know, you hit that "more details" link at the bottom of your user page.

So, anyone think those big, new shiny abuse report links at the bottom of every single one of your entries are a good idea now?

Sick of this? Here's some potential new homes:

djinanna has a nice overview of various journaling sites you might want to consider moving your shingle, too. I have a review of the InsaneJournal, GreatestJournal, and JournalFen options. Note that I am liz_marcs on both InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal, and scaryfairy on JournalFen (Note that I don't use JournalFen for more than commenting and posting fanfic).

If you choose to set up shop on InsaneJournal (InsaneJournal owner squeaky has gone out of his way to welcome fandom and made clear that it would take a DMCA or court order to force a suspension), mllesatine has a list of useful links for the site

ETA:

elke_tanzer has some other excellent options to protect yourself from LJ-related obliteration from the net.

Some ways to protect your data from getting lost:

LJArchive (Windows only) will download your entire journal (including comments) to your hard drive. It's a nice, electronic, searchable database that I've found to be dead useful. It's certainly more useful than LJSeek if you're looking for the link you vaguely remember posting in a reply to someone who commented on your journal at 3 a.m. two years ago.

LJBook (Windows and Mac) creates a PDF copy of your entire journal and preserves everything. PDFs are also searchable if you use the Search Function, although probably not as flexible as the LJArchive Search Function.

If you're looking for migrate to another journaling service LJ-SEC will allow you to move every single entry from LJ to any other site that uses LiveJournal code. Here's my experience using LJ-SEC, including positives and negatives. This is definitely a thumbs-up option, especially if you're moving over to InsaneJournal.

If you're not quite ready to jump ship, but think it's time to start multi-posting on several sites, Semagic allows multiple posting with one click. Just following these instructions and you're pretty much able to multi-post on any number of journals.

Afraid to make the move because you don't want to lose your Flist? These instructions will tell you how to syndicate all your friends to your new journaling home.

I don't know how much I'll be able to keep up with what's going on, since, y'know, I gotta work for a living. The above links should help you get started so you can do whatever you need to do.

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	hilleviw 2007-08-03 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	So...what option have you chosen? (Reply to this) (Thread)

liz_marcs
2007-08-03 03:08 pm UTC (link)

I've been cross-posting between InsaneJournal (my prefered), GreatestJournal, and LiveJournal since Memrorial Day and backed up my LJ completely to InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal on May 31. So at the moment I have an equal presence on all three journaling sites.

JournalFen is pretty much a back-up archive for fanfic, but it's a mess because the code is horrifically old over there.

	liz_marcs 2007-08-03 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	It's in the list of links above. See the part about Semagic. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	asphyxi 2007-08-03 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Damn. Just read your post here, and immediately ended hope of getting account at JF. sigh Any other way for me to get in? I swear I'm over 18. continues reading said post (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	tnrkitect 2007-08-03 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the summary and links. I will start triple posting myself soon, I just have to get the time to get things set up. Hard to do here recently. I will be doing some more writing on energy topics fairly soon though, so keep an eye out for them. (Reply to this)

	havocthecat 2007-08-03 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	GAH. (Reply to this)

	faithhopetricks 2007-08-03 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	What. The. HELL? I find it tragically amusing the opening line of your post before this one is "Now that the tides of wank are receding from my corner of LJ...." (Reply to this)

	vichan 2007-08-03 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. I heard whispers, but I haven't seen anything summarizing what's been happening. Looks like I need to crawl out from under my rock again. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2007-08-03 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	Sheeyah. Right. I told you so. Glad to see you were rooting for LJ to fail and those who paid for accounts (permanent and other) to look stupid. I'll be over here golf clapping your righteousness. (posted anonymously to protect the innocent and guilty from your throng) (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	elke_tanzer 2007-08-03 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	This is an awesome post. Thank you. Adding a link to it to my megapost o' doom now... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	liz_marcs 2007-08-03 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Heee! And I linked to you, as well! Feel free to link away. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	imaginarycircus 2007-08-03 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Linked to this post at the innocence_jihad post, which I am updating everytime I find something new. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	liz_marcs 2007-08-03 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you and feel free to link around. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	terioncalling 2007-08-03 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	They are out of their freaking minds. (Reply to this)

	texanfan 2007-08-03 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	There are many people I keep up with through lj. In fact, some of them it's the only way I keep up with them, so I'm kind of pinned here but if you ever find you need to pull up stakes and move entirely to one of the others please let me know? I'd hate to lose touch. (Reply to this)

	lilithilien 2007-08-03 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	What a wonderful resource post! I just linked to it from my LJ. And I read your other post on your experiences with LJ sec, and just transferred four years of posts over to insanejournal. Thank you so much! (Reply to this)

	someone posted the banned image as a macro! imaginarycircus 2007-08-03 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	Have you seen this comment at news?? http://news.livejournal.com/102095.html?thread=54408911#t54408911 (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: someone posted the banned image as a macro! ljmouse 2007-08-03 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	That is definitely NOT a work safe image, just FYI. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	gypsy_sally 2007-08-04 12:22 am UTC (link)
	Hi! I'm here via links from my flist, and you seem to have a pretty good handle on what's going on, along with a pretty good head on your shoulders about possible options and assorted info. I'm friending you so that I can utilize these talents. ;) Let me know if this is not okay with you. (Reply to this)

	saave 2007-08-04 06:55 am UTC (link)
	:D Thank you! I was linked there through my flist and I downloaded the LJ archive to back myself up. (I'm slightly wary of it, but I'm assured it's a good program.) Your post was loads of help. (Reply to this)

	girlfan1979 2007-08-04 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	Just to let you know (courtesy et al., but I've friended you on both IJ and GJ under the username "girlfan"). (Reply to this)

	ubiquirk 2007-08-04 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	I wanted to thank you for making this post. I'm here via xanphibian, though I've been meaning to ask if it's okay to friend you for a while. (Reply to this)

	dracofiend 2007-08-04 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the helpful links on downloading, migrating, etc. I'll be using them! :) Here via fandom_flies. (Reply to this)

	red_sunflower 2007-08-04 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you Liz for being a source of information. Btw, twocorpses is working on a new lj style site, is another option for those ready to pack and leave. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	$//In the Dark I Still Have You\\: Brennan kicks ass$ eclipsed_sky 2007-08-04 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Hi Liz, I've added you as a friend over on IJ and I do hope that things get better here. But thanks for all the info here. (Reply to this)