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wait - what?
Dec. 16th, 2010 12:25 pmCommandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos warned that gay people in the Marines would be “distracting,” what with their washboard abs and dreamy eyes, which would be bad, “And I’ll tell you why. If you go up to Bethesda Hospital . . . Marines are up there with no legs, none. We’ve got Marines at Walter Reed with no limbs.” See what you’ve done, House of Representatives? You’ve literally cut the legs out from under the Marines, with the gay.
(http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/2010/12/is-he-saying-its-not-fun-to-stay-in.html)
(http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/2010/12/is-he-saying-its-not-fun-to-stay-in.html)
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Sep. 21st, 2010 02:24 pmSo apparently LJ's answer on the whole privacy problem inherent in letting people crosspost screened comments and comments on locked posts is to turn it off for non-Cyrillic but leave it on for Cyrillic users. Since anyone can opt into "Cyrillic services" at any time, this is really no fix at all.
I understand (sort of) that LJ was/is used very differently in Russia and all, but that's one of the things that made the alliance with SUP so unholy beyond even the dreams of 6A - the segments of users are different enough that they can have mutually incompatible needs, and you wind up forcing something considered hateful onto one part to please the other. Maybe they feel that's where their bread is buttered and the opinions of the dissenters don't really matter (I was disturbed but not very surprised when I learned that SUP's CEO or whoever it was has considerable stock in Facebook and Twitter), but still it feels like trying to join up two things that were too different in character to be joined.
I understand (sort of) that LJ was/is used very differently in Russia and all, but that's one of the things that made the alliance with SUP so unholy beyond even the dreams of 6A - the segments of users are different enough that they can have mutually incompatible needs, and you wind up forcing something considered hateful onto one part to please the other. Maybe they feel that's where their bread is buttered and the opinions of the dissenters don't really matter (I was disturbed but not very surprised when I learned that SUP's CEO or whoever it was has considerable stock in Facebook and Twitter), but still it feels like trying to join up two things that were too different in character to be joined.
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qarael says, "Somebody in the lj_releases community finally got a response from the support forum", a response which confirms my suspicion that they were operating under the impression that a comment is the property of the commenter, not the owner of the journal where it was made, regardless of security context.Some advice on how to hide the repost option boxes using custom CSS, or see this, although of course this "fix" can't cover all cases, so isn't really a "fix" in that sense. On that first link, "
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xnguard posted their version, suitable for anyone using style=mine in a ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
news thread here" (btw: the link attached to "here" is wrong and links to a "subscribe to this thread" page; use http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html?thread=87366310#t87366310 instead) I think refers to you making use of ?style=mine, not someone else (since of course you can't alter someone else's style).(no subject)
Sep. 2nd, 2010 12:58 pmFor a little break (ha) from all the shouting about Facebook/Twitter Connect, here's some detailed testing on pingbacks in various public/locked/private/is-the-bot-friended combinations.
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Sep. 1st, 2010 09:01 pmMy husband did a little interesting historical digging here. Apparently the last time a news post got up to 5000+ comments of RAGE was when LJ decided to abolish the Basic Account level - almost two and a half years ago.
6237 and counting...
news post got up to 5000+ comments of RAGE was when LJ decided to abolish the Basic Account level - almost two and a half years ago.6237 and counting...