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LJ Abuse vs Boob Nazis
cali4niachef is informed by LJ Abuse her default icon is inappropriate and to cease using it by the 23rd or face having her account suspended.

Boob Nazis. LJ Abuse. Breastfeeding Icons.

I think we can all see where this is going. (booju_mooju first of all it seems.)

Once the anti-breastfeeding comms get hold of this it should really take off.

Edit the first Thanks to quickfade Apparently hardvice is responsible Icons in comments NSFW.

Edit the second Thanks to a mousie. cf_hardcore join the party.

Edit the third Thanks to freezer It hits metaquotes.

Edit the forth stupid_free weigh in. And fuckyoulist makes an appearance too.

Edit the fifth Just how much further can it spread? As far as retarded_icons, blackfolk and feminist apparently.

Edit the sixth hardvice shows solidarity with the boob_nazis. And magdalene74 has a new lj approved breastfeeding icon.

And to think when I originally posted this I was worried it wasn't wanky enough.

Edit the seventh Annnnnnnnnnd here's anti-feminist joining in the fun.

Edit the eighth Predictably - Exposing LJ Abuse

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rosehiptea
2006-05-21 12:33 am UTC (link)

Wow. I was on several of the volunteer-run boards watching them disappear one by one, and I didn't realize that was what had started it.

I do remember seeing people attacked on an ADHD board, when lurking a couple of times, and thinking that they really didn't have a good place to talk about medicating their kids without being attacked, but I didn't know it had gone that far.

I do remember some fairly batshit people on the vaccination debate board. I'm not saying they shouldn't have been there; that's why it was a debate board, but they were weird. One of them wrote a paper about why the "germ theory of disease" was a myth and her friends were all squeeing over it and wanting to read it.

It was really a shame to me, because they didn't just stop having volunteer run boards, they just shut down all the fun/wanky/supportive/attacking/horrible communities that made AOL something different from regular internet access.

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frequentmouse
2006-05-21 01:14 am UTC (link)

In 1999 my family and I went to Britain with a group of people from the AOL Rose Board; some of my closest RL friends are people I met online on the garden boards.

The boards just got too wanky to live, and there were other legal exposures that AOL couldn't handle, many of them resulting from volunteer errors. The situation chased a downward spiral of membership, people leaving the boards en masse while keeping AOL as an email address for convenience sake.

I'd really hate to see the same thing happen to LJ, but I think the lesson is that there's a point where a business gets too big to depend on unpaid volunteers in critical positions.

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rosehiptea
2006-05-21 01:22 am UTC (link)

I met a bunch of great people on the Homeschooling board, some of which I met IRL later (after keeping in touch through a private Yahoo! group.)

The Homeschooling board could get wanky, particularly due to the religious issues that came up, but it was an excellent resource and I lost all interest in AOL when it disappeared.

But, I agree completely with what you are saying about volunteers.

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gingersnaps
2006-05-22 12:48 am UTC (link)

but I think the lesson is that there's a point where a business gets too big to depend on unpaid volunteers in critical positions.

Very much agree. In the case of LJ Abuse, the paid people on the team aren't really much better. They seem to have developed an attitude of "defend decisions made by team members, however artitrary", and in this case retroactively changed the rules (from sexual acts and graphic violence to just nudity and graphic violence) to justify themselves.

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