mishalak

As I see it there are two issues at this point remaining with Strikethrough.

Has Six Apart/Livejournal fixed the problem by un-suspending the accounts that were suspended in error? Will Livejournal do something similar to this again?

We still do not know the full extent of the Strikethrough. Lists have been compiled, but none is exhaustive. That is part of the really frustrating part of this. We do not know who was suspended and we do not know who has been restored. In a vacuum of information it is hard to determine what actually has happened and I do not trust Livejournal's assurances. I want to be able to find out for myself

In Livejournal News it has been reported that all accounts that will be restored have been restored. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that everyone and every community listed in my previous post as still suspended are, in the view of Livejournal, clearly in violation of the terms of service (hereafter ToS).

One of the communities still suspended is

violentboylove. I do not know about the actual content of the community, but the still cached user information page (as of June 6th) indicates that this community was only about fiction. They emphasized that several times. But something about the community must be against the ToS. It is not their interests alone, there are hundreds or thousands of people who share the same interests as the group. And I thought from a previous new posting that story/roleplaying communities were a-okay.

So what is up? This is just one example, but I suspect that Livejournal is still not being honest or are still screwing up. One or the other because I cannot see any way around this example. There are perhaps other marginal cases as has been reported in an evaluation of the suspended communities. I do think that a fair number of the remaining suspended communities are deservedly so. Though I will note that it is better that the communities exist than not because if we really want to catch child predators/pornographers the way to go about it is not to delete them from LJ, but to follow them home. The right thing to do is to let the cockroaches emerge into the light so authorities can figure out where they are coming from.

So I think Livejournal is still not flying right even by their own announced rules. If I'm wrong about this I would love to be shown it.

Since they are not flying by their own rules, much less the ones I might prefer, what is the likelyhood that they're going to do this exact sort of thing again? High, I think. I have seen compelling speculation that LJ is trying to clean up for a public offering or other unknown financial object. Even if they are not they're not they certainly do not seem to be doing very well in the enforce a clear set of rules department.

I am seriously considering decamping for GreatestJournal or even abandoning online journaling.