Anton Nosik is an idiot

[crowdog66]

He really is.

No, seriously... he IS.

EDITED TO ADD: Here's a translation from Russian to English by a Russian:

http://darkrosetiger.livejournal.com/373663.html

It's appallingly stupid.

You do NOT get into a pissing contest with your paid customers and content generators. Yet this is exactly what Mr. Nosik seems to want to do with LiveJournal users.

For me, it's the last straw. I'm out of here as soon as my paid time is up, and the only reason I'm sticking around that long is because matrixrefugee personally asked me to. I refuse to support a company with the attitude Mr. Nosik has just expressed.

With that in mind... how many of you have InsaneJournal accounts and are willing to be Friended by me over there?

EDITED TO ADD: I just started an account over on VOX:

http://prairiecrow.vox.com

It's similar enough to LiveJournal to be easy to use and it's not as butt-ugly as InsaneJournal.

Comments

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

The guy is from Soviet Russia, what else can you expect from a country that just about defines "draconian"?

And maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but the very name "InsaneJournal" just annoys me. It sounds like the kind of place for callous people with horrendous senses of entitlement who look down their neurotypical noses at people like me.

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

There is also VOX.... I have an account there, it is run by Six Apart. I think it's open to sign up if not I probably have invite codes still. Just a thought :)

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just signed up as prairiecrow. It looks like a really cool site.

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

I am eastpath on there. I've never really explored it, but it looks rather pretty :)

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

I've added you. Yay!

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

Cool :) If you like it enough, and things bomb here completely I'm sure we could convince others to join us. And as for CotSW stuff I can host that on my website under a password protected subdomain if needed.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Insane is made of ugly. I've got a Scribbld account, though (early adopter is me, woohoo!), and I could probably get a feed to the vox journal set up with some fiddling.