Statement of Purpose
Welcome to ljspeaks!

Recently, I've been reading comment after comment, post after post about how people are unhappy with the direction LJ has been taking. Things are changing in ways nobody wants, and no-one from management seems to be listening. We have promises that they'll listen, soon... but we've heard that before. We need a place to speak, and feel like we're being heard.

And here it is.

Up until now, expressing our concerns has been limited to random statements or posting haphazard links to a variety of personal journals. Each clearly states issues that all users feel, but they're all posted in different places. There is nowhere to bring it all together. Instead of thousands of users saying the same thing differently, we can all direct LJ to the same post, in one place: here.

I created this community so that users could come together to state and discuss these issues calmly. Not to say the angered mob of news comments doesn't get anything done, but it only goes as far as getting their attention. When we happen to get the ear of LJ, we need to point them somewhere, to the problems we want addressed.

Also, since LJ has started spreading their information over a number of communities, I felt people might want a place where they could bring it all together. Too often, there has been information given by LJ staff members hidden deep in a 200 comment thread. These are things users need to know, and yet few will ever read. But if just one user catches that, and posts it here, that can change.

Remember, though: diplomacy is key. There are to be no attacks made in this community; leave that behind in the news comment threads. This community is to be civil and informative, to both its members and the LJ staff which I hope will come to read these posts. If we rant and rave, we get written off as irrational. But if we clearly state our issues, politely and forcefully... we cannot be ignored.

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