Natalie ([info]evidux) wrote in [info]innocence_jihad,
@ 2007-08-07 01:55:00
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We get signal!
This response has just been received by [info]radiovolume from 6A:


Dear LiveJournal user radiovolume,

Thank you for contacting us with your feedback, and I apologize that LiveJournal and Six Apart's actions have left you so disappointed. Your request is in a private area of the support board that only LiveJournal employees may access. This is to ensure that your feedback receives proper handling from a senior member of our support staff, rather than one of our volunteers.

I apologize for the delay in getting a public update out to our concerned community members. Please expect more information regarding the situation later this evening in the lj_biz journal.

Please know that in the interest of employee confidentiality, we are unable to discuss human resource issues with people outside the company. However, we do recognize the negative effects of comments of this nature on the wider LiveJournal community, regardless of the intention behind the comments themselves, and so please be assured that this type of behavior is not condoned by Six Apart.

I understand that you may not trust us enough at this time to renew your account. If you do not feel the paid account benefits are worth the amount we are charging, or if you continue to be dissatisfied with the site's management, we encourage you to not renew your account until you are satisfied. We don't want any LiveJournal users to send us payment for our service unless they will be satisfied with what they'll receive. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a paid account holder.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com



This also recieved just moments ago by [info]ladyelleth

Dear LiveJournal user ladyelleth,

Thank you for contacting us with your feedback. I apologize for the delay in getting a public update out to our concerned community members. Please expect more information regarding the situation later this evening in the lj_biz journal.

Also, as you may imagine, the concerns raised by our users regarding our Abuse policies have caused a higher than normal volume of requests for us to read and respond to, which has resulted in abnormal delays. Please be assured that your previous questions will be answered as soon as possible.

Please know that in the interest of employee confidentiality, we are unable to discuss human resource issues with people outside the company. However, we do recognize the negative effects of comments of this nature on the wider LiveJournal community, regardless of the intention behind the comments themselves, and so please be assured that this type of behavior is not condoned by Six Apart.

I understand at this point that you may certainly be feeling outraged and insulted by the occurrences of the past few days. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a member of the LiveJournal community.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com



Edit: Another response has been received. Can be found under the cut.




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[info]minviendha
2007-08-07 12:03 am UTC (link)
Wow, they're alive. Fascinating.

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[info]shini_chii
2007-08-07 12:08 am UTC (link)
Now let's just hope for an ACTUAL post.

Not a post saying "we screwed up" followed by another screw up.
Still... I'll be positive.

Thank you for posting this! ^_^.

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[info]ladyelleth
2007-08-07 12:09 am UTC (link)
Another reply here: http://news.livejournal.com/100610.html?thread=60195842#t60195842

Largely the same as above, different portion c/ped:

I understand at this point that you may certainly be feeling outraged and insulted by the occurrences of the past few days. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a member of the LiveJournal community.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com

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[info]setos_puppy
2007-08-07 12:11 am UTC (link)
About goddamn time

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[info]miomeinmio
2007-08-07 12:21 am UTC (link)
Gah. At least someone in that company is smart enough to say, "Appease them you fools!"

Snaps to everyone who wrote them a letter and to the SA employees who finally gave the go ahead and did the replying.

Hopefully this is a sign of positive things to come.

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[info]lostalgia
2007-08-07 12:23 am UTC (link)
Nevermind. XD Didn't read all of it. ME FTW.

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[info]la_canadienne
2007-08-07 12:28 am UTC (link)
I got a similar response just now.

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Dear Julie,

Thank you for contacting us with your feedback, and I apologize that LiveJournal and Six Apart's actions have left you so disappointed.

I am very sorry for the delay in getting a public update out to our concerned community members. Please expect more information regarding the situation later this evening in the lj_biz journal.

Please know that in the interest of employee confidentiality, we are unable to discuss human resource issues with people outside the company, and therefore are unable to discuss any internal issues regarding Abe's comments to this community. However, we do recognize the negative effects of comments of this nature on the wider LiveJournal community, regardless of the intention behind the comments themselves, and so please be assured that this type of behavior is not condoned by Six Apart.

I understand that you may not trust us enough at this time to return to the site, and I regret that we will be losing you as a member of our wider community. However, if you continue to be dissatisfied with the site's management, we understand this decision you have made and encourage you to only return if you are again satisfied with the service we are providing. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a member of the LiveJournal community.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com

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[info]hoshi3
2007-08-07 12:38 am UTC (link)
y halo thar form replies.

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[info]maidenmorticia
2007-08-07 01:09 am UTC (link)
lol, my thoughts exactly.

I was claiming that they were doing that during original strikethrough (largely because the response they sent me was unrelated to anything I'd written them about), but others said, nawwww! ... ha ha... looks like I was right.

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(no subject) - [info]pheret1, 2007-08-07 04:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hoshi3, 2007-08-07 05:02 am UTC

[info]jeva_chan
2007-08-07 12:50 am UTC (link)
AFTER FOUR DAYS. FOUR DAYS, MAN!

It will take a LOT of explaining, and quickly at that, if they want us to even begin to listen to them and believe them. We'll listen either way they do it, but believing them? Hah~

*is still very doubtful that it will be within 12 hours that they finally give a response*

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[info]nomadmatan
2007-08-07 02:03 am UTC (link)
actually, most frustrating, is that they're going to respond to stuff...but most probably (based on their history) leave us once again, with even more questions...that they're not going to respond to, in a timely manner.

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[info]chekhovsrifle
2007-08-07 12:52 am UTC (link)
"We don't want any LiveJournal users to send us payment for our service"

And

"We encourage you to not renew your account"

Should be iconised.

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[info]beyond_the_six
2007-08-07 12:58 am UTC (link)
I'm sure they're getting on it as we speak.

I wouldn't mind having them myself.

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(no subject) - [info]mckavian, 2007-08-07 09:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]megpie71, 2007-08-07 11:51 am UTC

[info]cmw_brigid_5501
2007-08-07 12:55 am UTC (link)
I just got one myself:

Dear Christina,

Thank you for contacting us with your feedback, and I apologize that
LiveJournal and Six Apart's actions have left you so disappointed.

Please know that in the interest of employee confidentiality, we are
unable to discuss human resource issues with people outside the company,
and therefore are unable to discuss any internal issues regarding Abe's
comments to this community. However, we do recognize the negative
effects of comments of this nature on the wider LiveJournal community,
regardless of the intention behind the comments themselves, and so please
be assured that this type of behavior is not condoned by Six Apart.

I understand that you may not trust us enough at this time to renew
your account. If you do not feel the paid account benefits are worth the
amount we are charging, or if you continue to be dissatisfied with the
site's management, we encourage you to not renew your account until you
are satisfied. We don't want any LiveJournal users to send us payment
for our service unless they will be satisfied with the service that
they'll receive. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will
be able to re-earn your trust as a paid account holder, and as a member
of our LiveJournal community at large.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com

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[info]cacahuate
2007-08-07 01:05 am UTC (link)
Here's another one:

Dear Molly,

Thank you for contacting us with your concerns.

I understand that many of our fandom participants would like this information to be posted to the News journal. However, we will be keeping it to the lj_biz journal as promised. In a previous News entry, we informed the readers that the discussion would be continuing there, so that those readers who were interested could continue to follow the discussion. Returning the discussion back to News would be considered as unnecessarily spammy to those users who do not care to follow up regarding this issue.

Truly, I do understand that the reaction we are receiving is from a userbase that loves LiveJournal deeply. All of us who are working on the project are LiveJournal users too, and we'd hate to see bad things happen just as much, if not more, than the rest of the userbase. I apologize that the extended silence has caused you to believe that we do not care about the complaints we have received, as nothing could be further from the truth. I sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a member of the LiveJournal community.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com

Interesting.

we'd hate to see bad things happen just as much, if not more, than the rest of the userbase

I'm not so sure we're on the same page here.

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[info]aura_wolf
2007-08-07 01:08 am UTC (link)
I'm not so sure we're on the same page here.

IAWTC!!

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(no subject) - [info]sapphoq, 2007-08-07 01:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maidenmorticia, 2007-08-07 02:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cacahuate, 2007-08-07 02:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maidenmorticia, 2007-08-07 02:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cacahuate, 2007-08-07 02:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]foxdemon_arukas, 2007-08-07 06:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]foxdemon_arukas, 2007-08-07 06:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cacahuate, 2007-08-07 06:55 am UTC
From when I reported those comments by Abe in efw
[info]fujinsama
2007-08-07 01:07 am UTC (link)
Dear LiveJournal user fujinsama,

Thank you for contacting us with your concerns.

Please know that in the interest of employee confidentiality, we are unable to discuss human resource issues with people outside the company. However, we do recognize the negative effects of comments of this nature on the wider LiveJournal community, regardless of the intention behind the comments themselves, and so please be assured that this type of behavior is not condoned by Six Apart.

Regards,
Carrie Stevens
Six Apart, Ltd. // LiveJournal.com

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[info]deathlike
2007-08-07 01:11 am UTC (link)
I see pattern here... Probably won't get a response until next week or next month, maybe never because they royally-screw-up-so-bad-beyond-repair. With addition of losing money from said large user base. Jeez... It is really hard to make a public announcement and professional apology for private company like Six Apart.

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[info]totally_fierce
2007-08-07 01:18 am UTC (link)
fucking cunt. It took her damn long enough to respond to it. I still smell bullshit.

Notice how all her responses fell a bit copy/paste???

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[info]tarie
2007-08-07 01:31 am UTC (link)
Is it really necessary to resort to using an incredibly offensive slur in regards to this woman's email for the simple fact that she works for an organization with which you're currently disgruntled?

I think not.

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(no subject) - [info]thewayoutis, 2007-08-07 01:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evidux, 2007-08-07 01:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]fanfare, 2007-08-07 02:03 am UTC
*nods* - [info]ursamajor, 2007-08-07 03:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]valady, 2007-08-07 02:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pheret1, 2007-08-07 04:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jigglypuff, 2007-08-07 07:02 am UTC

[info]totally_fierce
2007-08-07 01:21 am UTC (link)
And 'employee confidentiality' my fucking ass

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[info]ex_suhina987
2007-08-07 01:26 am UTC (link)
Funny. It all comes down to, "Sorry if you don't like what we're doing here, but don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. Feel free to come back with money in hand any time, but it's unlikely we'll be changing a thing."

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[info]anyotherknight
2007-08-07 01:53 am UTC (link)
In response to my comments regarding [info]barr86's infuriating and libelous claims, a form letter! \:D/

I understand that you may not trust us enough at this time to renew your account. If you do not feel the paid account benefits are worth the amount we are charging, or if you continue to be dissatisfied with the site's management, we encourage you to not renew your account until you are satisfied. We don't want any LiveJournal users to send us payment for our service unless they will be satisfied with the service that they'll receive. We sincerely hope that, over the next few months, we will be able to re-earn your trust as a paid account holder.

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[info]ancha_289
2007-08-07 03:45 am UTC (link)
d'you mean [info]burr86?

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(no subject) - [info]anyotherknight, 2007-08-07 03:46 am UTC

[info]princess2000204
2007-08-07 02:26 am UTC (link)
OMG! They're finally taking notice. I'm surprised, seriously!

Certainly curious to see what's going to be done from this point on since supposedly 6A recognizes that there is in fact a problem going on.

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[info]no_bedof_roses
2007-08-07 02:32 am UTC (link)
The subtext of that letter is, "We don't need your money, and if you don't like it, sod off.".

Smells like a load of horse pucky to me.

I really don't think they have a CLUE of the numbers of people who will take them up on that.

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[info]unlovablehands
2007-08-07 03:40 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but I'd rather be told "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" straight up than, you know, "everything's going to be okay. oh wait we lied." :D

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[info]murdering
2007-08-07 03:11 am UTC (link)
I'm a big fan of formletters.


We should start a FANDOM for formletters.

DAMN STRAIGHT.

We can have FORMLETTER PORN. >D

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[info]sdragon
2007-08-07 05:20 am UTC (link)
I got a big, throbbing, multisyllabic segment for your insertion point riiiiight here!

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(no subject) - [info]foxdemon_arukas, 2007-08-07 06:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sdragon, 2007-08-07 09:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]foxdemon_arukas, 2007-08-07 10:50 pm UTC

[info]twistedsheets10
2007-08-07 03:47 am UTC (link)
Copypaste response forms for YAY!

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[info]nomadmatan
2007-08-07 04:38 am UTC (link)
Aaaaand we're still waiting for that [info]lj_biz update...

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[info]cacahuate
2007-08-07 06:17 am UTC (link)
Yeah, where the heck is it?

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(no subject) - [info]nomadmatan, 2007-08-07 07:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cacahuate, 2007-08-07 07:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nomadmatan, 2007-08-07 08:38 pm UTC
Sucks to be Carrie
[info]sdragon
2007-08-07 05:20 am UTC (link)
I mean, cooking up all that copy pasta must be tiring.

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[info]lavenderfrost
2007-08-07 08:42 am UTC (link)
Copy/Paste times 5 million+ angry emails about something she had nothing to do with aside from working for the company that did it?

Yeah. It can get exhausting.

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[info]shatteredwolf
2007-08-07 07:54 am UTC (link)
Some update right folks?I'm soooo enjoying it. PFFT

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