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

[foxfirefey]

Also, I used to think that invite codes were a great idea to combat spam, but it also discourages non-DW bloggers from commenting here.

Do you think the named guest commenting project coming up will help that? It's a step between OpenID and anonymous, and pretty analogous to the default WordPress commenting setup.

[charmian]

I can't speak for Morineko, but IMHO, I think that would be a great advance.

[foxfirefey]

I think it has a good chance of being a GSoC project; there were a bunch of applications for that one. If so, then it should be implemented this summer!