Some of the Advisory Board members were announced last night.

I am mostly just sitting back and watching with an open mind toward the board, but a cynical attitude toward Lj. What do you guys think?


Edited at 1:35 am:
Has anyone else noticed the new Lj home page? There's an Inside LiveJournal section with links to Explore sections as well as MSN articles. I didn't see anything in the many official Lj communities about it. Does anyone know anything about this?

( @ imaria: I didn't know how you wanted this tagged after the edit, so I just wanted to make sure you knew I edited so you could tag it properly. (: )

from lj_2008 snippet:

Advisory Board

Along with Brad Fitzpatrick and other members of the online community, the two Advisory Board members elected from within the LiveJournal userbase will be asked to advise the LiveJournal, Inc. management on a variety of matters. As a further clarification, they will provide important dialog and consideration of relevant issues (such as taste and decency on the site) in the context of privacy, freedom of expression and other values of great importance to the LiveJournal community.


And if the one or both lj bloggers elected are xenophobic about homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, pagans, heathens, alternative spiritualities adherents, alternative sexual practices adherents, atheists, agnostics, fanfic lit writers, fanfic artists, feminists, various political ideologists,  or any other bunch of bloggers who are part of a community, tribe, race, religion, non-religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other disenfranchised group who other human beings feel it is their god-given duty to discriminate against...?

You can tell me if you want to that these things don't happen and won't happen.  Unfortunately, I've lived far too long, have witnessed some
bad stuff that human beings can do to other human beings or deny to other human beings who are members of minorities so I know that
bad stuff happens. 
I have lived long enough to know that not everyone wishes us well.
I am also aware that any one of the groups mentioned above are at risk here should an advisory board decide that
somehow the values of others are corrupt, distasteful, indecent.

What assurance do members of minority communities have that El Jay won't become a modern quasi-witch hunt rooting out any occurrence of  values, practices, and ethics which are different from some alleged tasteful decent societal norm?


spike

These are sincere concerns, not  snarkiness.