More news, not necessarily good

[crowdog66]

From lj_2008:

LiveJournal Advisory Board will be a group of informed thought leaders from the global online community, who will advise the management and board of directors of LiveJournal in the development of the LiveJournal platform;

The LiveJournal Advisory Board will publish and update on a regular basis a clear a set of aims and values. This will address such vital community issues as privacy, security, taste and decency. It will also provide a forum to consider any relevant legal, political or religious concerns. It will also focus on access issues including usability, technology, interoperability, open source, social graph, and more. The LJ Advisory Board will also take responsibility for overseeing all ongoing charitable work;

LiveJournal Advisory Board will be available to provide guidance to the management and the board of directors to address new issues and controversies as they arise; on occasion the management will ask the LiveJournal Advisory Board formally to vet specific decisions;

LiveJournal Advisory Board will, in equal measure, represent the users, offering them a voice, a sounding board and a forum for addressing not only the users' role in LiveJournal, but also LiveJournal's role in the online world;

LiveJournal Advisory Board will take responsibility for overseeing all ongoing charitable work, which the existing LiveJournal management supports.

Is it just me, or does this sound like a really, really, REALLY bad idea? "It will also provide a forum to consider any relevant... religious concerns." To me, that sounds like it could well mean: "If you're not Christian, you're fucked."

Comments

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

The idea in itself doesn't sound like a problem. The idea might be meant to have someone to avoid doing things like banning users with Incest as an interest, or the whole breastfeeding debacle.

But the chances are, the *execution* will end up being exactly as messed up as you think it will. It seems of a piece with the sort of reasoning which has someone's farewell to his writing assistant marked as possible including adult content (None of which was to be seen).

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Truthfully?

It sounds like the kind of writing people use for "mission statements" when they need a mission statement, so that later they can hold it up and say, "See? We have a mission statement!"

I wouldn't worry about it.

:-)

[metisbutterfly.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. I think it will be "much ado about nothing", just like when LJ went with six apart.