I'm sorry that you felt I was singling you out! I've been making similar comments elsewhere when I see people making similar comments -- I'm just a little slow on some of them, since I'm also juggling trying to help our sysadmin team troubleshoot the problem we're having with our Apache processes using way too much memory.
It just makes me very sad when I see comments about how much LJ sucks in response to posts here, since a whole lot of people try to turn "LJ vs DW" into an either/or, and sometimes it feels like people can't enjoy DW without expressing frustrations about LJ. I am far from a fan of some of the decisions LJ's management has made over the past few years and I obviously think DW is a superior product for many use cases, but I also think that LJ is a superior product for other use cases (which, obviously, many of our users aren't fans of, or they'd be over there instead of over here!) and I think it's completely valid to maintain accounts on both sites and enjoy both of them. A lot of people have this perception of DW as being anti-LJ, and not only is that not good for DW, it's personally very upsetting for me, since I started working on LJ ten loooooong years ago and DW literally could not exist without it.
One of the things that bothers me about LJ is the tone of discourse that the comments to their official announcements tend to take on over time due to lack of moderation, and we agreed when we started DW that we would do our best to keep DW's offical communities' comments as polite and respectful as we could. This involves stepping in whenever I see something that has the potential to go downhill, as soon as I can. Sometimes I don't get to something fast enough, and sometimes I'm sure I jump the gun a little, but it's something we feel really passionate about and try to watch out for as much as possible. I don't want to keep people from raising concerns they have with Dreamwidth, but this isn't the place for concerns with LiveJournal, and I don't want the comments to become a string of people complaining about any other site, not just LJ!
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It just makes me very sad when I see comments about how much LJ sucks in response to posts here, since a whole lot of people try to turn "LJ vs DW" into an either/or, and sometimes it feels like people can't enjoy DW without expressing frustrations about LJ. I am far from a fan of some of the decisions LJ's management has made over the past few years and I obviously think DW is a superior product for many use cases, but I also think that LJ is a superior product for other use cases (which, obviously, many of our users aren't fans of, or they'd be over there instead of over here!) and I think it's completely valid to maintain accounts on both sites and enjoy both of them. A lot of people have this perception of DW as being anti-LJ, and not only is that not good for DW, it's personally very upsetting for me, since I started working on LJ ten loooooong years ago and DW literally could not exist without it.
One of the things that bothers me about LJ is the tone of discourse that the comments to their official announcements tend to take on over time due to lack of moderation, and we agreed when we started DW that we would do our best to keep DW's offical communities' comments as polite and respectful as we could. This involves stepping in whenever I see something that has the potential to go downhill, as soon as I can. Sometimes I don't get to something fast enough, and sometimes I'm sure I jump the gun a little, but it's something we feel really passionate about and try to watch out for as much as possible. I don't want to keep people from raising concerns they have with Dreamwidth, but this isn't the place for concerns with LiveJournal, and I don't want the comments to become a string of people complaining about any other site, not just LJ!