recent LJ controversies, Three Weeks for DW

[charmian]

Been busy translating some stuff, although I am planning to put up some links about the latest Facebook events.

Hmm, at this point a lot of my thoughts about LJ's latest scandal regarding the Driving Revenue/Outboundlinks stuff can be summed up by this animated .gif. Here are tips on dealing with the issue, in case you haven't heard already.

Also, there's a comm on DW dedicated to creating exclusive content for DW for three weeks. Since most of the content in this blog is original and not cross-posted to anywhere else, I guess you could say I'm already 'participating.' Anyhow, this campaign makes me wonder whether it is true that one of the impediments to DW growth is that there is a dearth of original content on DW?

Poll #2875

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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What do you think the main factor impeding/slowing DW growth is?

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Lack of DW-exclusive content
6 (10.9%)

Dearth of active comms
33 (60.0%)

Invite code system
3 (5.5%)

Insufficient publicity
1 (1.8%)

Something else which I will detail in comments
12 (21.8%)

Comments

[noxie]

That could be it! Do you know any comms here to which that applies, just as examples?

[charmian]

Hmm, I am not really sure because often I am not familiar with which comms have analoguous comms on LJ and which don't.

[holyschist]

I know shutterspeed is very active--I was frankly surprised at how active it was from day one and it'll be interesting to see if that's sustained. There are probably similar photography prompt comms on LJ, but it wasn't modeled on any of them specifically.

Fannishly, I'm not sure--I haven't had time to do anything in fandom lately, so I haven't gone looking yet.