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.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

I found an instance of this in the wild for you to observe, like a photo safari:

http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/585577.html?thread=13035369#t13035369

[charmian]

Hmm, 'just saying' does tend to accompany those sorts of statements. And then the accompanying irritation in response.

I do feel sorry for Kyle Cassidy for having to deal w/ all of this.

[foxfirefey]

I don't! I mean, he's a fine guy and all, I like him just fine, but it's not that bad of a wankstorm, especially not in his journal (55 comments for the day, most people are just going Thanks awesome rep!), and it lets him feel like he's earning the apparently $200 a week LJ pays him for the position (finding this out annoyed cambler to no end, too, ha, he has the most rapt interest in all measures of fairnesses for LJ rep elections, taken to sometimes ridiculous extremes). And the position this time around clearly stated the rules around being designated LJ whipping person, too.

[charmian]

Ahaha, that was before I saw that he's actually being paid for this ($200 is more than fair, considering that most of the time nothing happens), but I am still really not sure what the position is for. I had thought it was that the rep would simply run on a platform of ideas and such, and then when elected they would state them in meetings and talk about what the users had said, but it is turning out to be some kind of customer service position.