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kunzite1
"a new community has popped up and i figured i'd put it out there.
who here would like to see LJ continue to thrive?
who here would like to see LJ continue to be a place that you can go and post your opinions about life?
who here would like to have productive discussion about where LJ is going?
if you're willing to be a level-headed participant in talking about the various aspects and changes to LJ, please request membership in the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
powerusers community."
I do have a couple of concerns regarding this new change in accounts
News from Russia
We made a commitment to keep you abreast of important LiveJournal developments and we want to honor that commitment and let you know about a new feature we are going to test in Russia: Paid Accounts Supported by Sponsors.
"The concept is simple, really. Essentially it’s a paid account, but someone else picks up the bill.
Here's how it works: Users will be offered paid accounts that are supported by sponsors. Users will be able to choose accounts from a range of brands supporting this program. Should the sponsor stop supporting this arrangement, the account will revert back to its previous type.
The accounts will have a specially designed journal style with modest branding from the sponsor; these will be designed by our creative department and approved by the sponsors. There will also be a banner in the profile page. The owners of paid/sponsored accounts will not see advertisements in other people's journals, while existing paid users will not see banners in a sponsored users' profiles. The branded styles will respect ?style=mine, which will allow paid users to avoid seeing branded styles if they wish to do so.
This new feature will soon be available for testing by Russian-speaking users. They will test the functionality of new accounts and provide us with feedback. Based on this feedback and agreements with global advertisers, we may eventually extend this new functionality to LJ users around the world."
My concern is, how will this effect the content of the journals? Would certain Journals not be suitable due to adult, political or other posts which the sponsors wouldn't want to be associated with. Would this become a way to censer people and how they use their lj?
I know that there are problems with going to a journal with adverts, and that some of your information is collected. It is not something that concerns me, as almost everywhere I go, I get adverts, and this information is probably everywhere already.
What worries me is that it could give others leverage to dictate what can be posted.
kunzite1"a new community has popped up and i figured i'd put it out there.
who here would like to see LJ continue to thrive?
who here would like to see LJ continue to be a place that you can go and post your opinions about life?
who here would like to have productive discussion about where LJ is going?
if you're willing to be a level-headed participant in talking about the various aspects and changes to LJ, please request membership in the
powerusers community."I do have a couple of concerns regarding this new change in accounts
News from Russia
We made a commitment to keep you abreast of important LiveJournal developments and we want to honor that commitment and let you know about a new feature we are going to test in Russia: Paid Accounts Supported by Sponsors.
"The concept is simple, really. Essentially it’s a paid account, but someone else picks up the bill.
Here's how it works: Users will be offered paid accounts that are supported by sponsors. Users will be able to choose accounts from a range of brands supporting this program. Should the sponsor stop supporting this arrangement, the account will revert back to its previous type.
The accounts will have a specially designed journal style with modest branding from the sponsor; these will be designed by our creative department and approved by the sponsors. There will also be a banner in the profile page. The owners of paid/sponsored accounts will not see advertisements in other people's journals, while existing paid users will not see banners in a sponsored users' profiles. The branded styles will respect ?style=mine, which will allow paid users to avoid seeing branded styles if they wish to do so.
This new feature will soon be available for testing by Russian-speaking users. They will test the functionality of new accounts and provide us with feedback. Based on this feedback and agreements with global advertisers, we may eventually extend this new functionality to LJ users around the world."
My concern is, how will this effect the content of the journals? Would certain Journals not be suitable due to adult, political or other posts which the sponsors wouldn't want to be associated with. Would this become a way to censer people and how they use their lj?
I know that there are problems with going to a journal with adverts, and that some of your information is collected. It is not something that concerns me, as almost everywhere I go, I get adverts, and this information is probably everywhere already.
What worries me is that it could give others leverage to dictate what can be posted.
