(If you have no overlap/familiarity with the LJ support
infrastructure, you may skip this mail.)
If you haven't seen it, take a moment to read:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_support/775227.html
This is something that is pretty important to keep in mind: we are
friendly to LJ. The staff and volunteers are good people doing good
work, and we don't want to antagonize or get in the way of that in any
way. Carrie's point at the end of that post is spot on:
"I hope that each of us will continue to support our friends in
each of our efforts to make a difference, wherever that may be. We
might work for different projects, but we're all motivated by a common
goal to make the internet a little bit better for those around us, and
I personally think that's pretty damn awesome."
I think that's pretty damn awesome too. The LJ support staff and
volunteers are amazing people who have put up with a lot - from the
users and from above - and they are deserving of our respect and
support, not our agitation or grief, intentional or not. Much like we
have and will continue to encourage LJ to take patches we write and
merge them upstream, I want to see our volunteer infrastructures
friendly and compatible.
Similarly, we will NOT be recruiting people to help us from LJ
support/abuse/etc. If someone comes over and wants to see what we're
about on their own, by all means, let them come. But please do not go
to their IRC channels extolling the virtues of DW, post about it in
their communities, PM their volunteers to entice them, or anything
like that. I firmly believe that Dreamwidth will succeed on its own
merit, and that we will find our own pool of talented people to be our
superstars. That is one of the main points of the site: we can do
this and succeed on our own merit.
Thank you. :)
--
Mark Smith / xb95
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