Somehow we'll make it, 'cause that's what we do

[dani_the_girl]

So, DW open beta date has been announced! 30 April, 2009. Yes, it's really really happening - those crazy kids :)

As soon as things actually go live, I'm planning to move my journal over there permanently. I'll probably cross-post back to here but close comments so that they all stay in one place. I'd really like to do a poll, but as I am only a lowly free account here, no such luck :( I would appreciate knowing though...

[ ] I'm planning to move over to Dreamwidth and I'll be paying money for an account.
[ ] I'm planning to move over to Dreamwidth if I can get my hands on an invite code (hint hint :D).
[ ] I've no plans to move, but I'll come comment on your entries over there.
[ ] I've no plans to move and won't comment if I can't do it on LJ.
[ ] Err, I forgot what Dreamwidth is again... remind me?

I myself am hoping to buy a seed account so once things kick off, I should have plenty of coedz to go around...

Comments

[synecdochic]

Just FYI, that is at the point where we roll our eyes, explain that we don't restrict anything that's not illegal (and oh by the way with the exception of $things_we_have_already_stated, we need a court order to determine that something is 'illegal'), invite people to use our very nice killfile function (that doesn't exist yet, but will!), and have we mentioned that we hold a very generous liability-insurance policy, a war chest of legal defense money, and in-house counsel with a specialty in internet and first amendment law.

We're really, really serious when we say the absolute bare minimum restrictions we feel we have to place in order to cover our asses. There'll be a few things that are just 'basic human decency' type issues, like 'thou shalt not out other people, thou shalt not post someone's phone #, thou shalt not post someone's social security number', etc, that are less "legally necessary" and more "invasion of privacy" type issues, but other than that, we're really, really willing to accept a level of risk that companies backed by venture capital just flat out won't.

"Don't like it, don't read it" is both Mark's and my attitudes to a lot of things.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Good for you, but I'll guarantee that the first time something--oh, blatantly racist fan fiction, maybe?--is posted on Dreamwidth and creates a wank, someone will demand that you ban it. I'm glad to hear that you won't give in--but you are going to hear the demand.

[synecdochic]

Well, sure. On LJ over 90% of abuse reports were stuff we wouldn't act on. On DW I'm guessing it'll be closer to 98%. I could always tell when there was wank going on; we'd get eighty abuse reports demanding that we Do Something About This Travesty. So I'm really familiar with fandom going running to Mommy -- it isn't just something that's going to happen on DW, it happens on LJ all the time.