DW users 'smug'?

[charmian]

Is the 'smugness' of some Dreamwidth users causing 'tension between the two sites'?

What's this all about? I recognize the username from somewhere or other. I'm not so sure about 'tension between the two sites,' as probably most LJ users have never even heard of Dreamwidth.

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[turlough]

That's interesting. I still do the majority of my journaling on LJ (mostly because my fandom stubbornly clings to it) but my mental focus is all on DW these days. I haven't read the comments on LJ news in ages, in fact I hardly do more than skim the entries themselves.

[azurelunatic]

You're not missing all that much. The news entries themselves have settled into something approaching the old format, with a good number of actually informative things, and the new employee's tactic of setting an arbitrary discussion topic for the news comments and handing out vgifts to those who participate in it has led to a far-less-scary news comment environment.

It's taken her a while to start spinning up, but at this point I'm not actually regretting that they hired her anymore.

But any time an explosion breaks out on LJ that would be solved by a DW innovation or simply being-not-LJ, there's a certain amount of smug-bystanding from DW users (though they mostly avoid using popcorn.gif); it's not quite the LJ-bashing that D was trying to keep the lid on, but it's the sort of thing that, if you're in the middle of the problem and you're seeing someone standing there being ever so slightly amused and untouched by the problem, you might accept their offer of help, or you might want to break their face.

[charmian]

I swore off participating in news comments awhile ago (especially since I hardly ever post at LJ these days, which makes me feel like there's less of a point in participating), but I'm glad to hear that news posts are more useful, and the comments area less rowdy.

I guess it's natural that they would do that, but I do kind of think that it's... somewhat inappropriate? for them to be doing it in the LJ news comments. It comes off like advertising for another service, and as you say, people who choose to use LJ are not going to appreciate the schaudenfreude.