Fumbling towards acceptability

Glad to see 6A inching along in honing its policies. The two most important things it's managed have been the "two-strikes" rule and the apologies/reinstations amid recognitions that maybe suspensions without warning were uncalled for. It's progress, and I'm inclined to be more gracious when I remember that LJ isn't being run as a passionate enterprise anymore but rather by a business, and when you consider how difficult these policies are to delineate when it's just one person sitting down fretting, combine that with the charlie-foxtrot that is a staff meeting and tell me that that's something you'd like to sit through, yammering about it until the weakest link at the table finally shuts up about it. That's hard enough to endure online.

kateshort continues to be a fount of wisdom and support on the issue, and while, as in everything, I lack her enthusiasm, I applaud her effort.

None of this is affected by the SCOTUS decision that Terms of Service can't be arbitrarily changed without notifying users, which I find to be an astonishing and heartening decision, because everything falls under a necessarily vague subsection of the TOS which allows LJ control over crap like this. And that's fine, really. I'm not going to defend fanart of Snape blowing the Harryhorn (can we get Scholastic's lawyers involved in this? That's about the only missing element here). I'm still trying to get around my kneejerk impulse to attribute to 6A devious and malicious intent when they're just...often baffled at anything that borders on public relations, and having dealt with enough people with negligible social skills, you'd think I'd be more forgiving of such. Mea culpa.

Sorry, this is drifting from tealdeer to tealduck (too long; don't care). Needed to put voice to the introspection. Still glad I didn't opt for the permanent account, but undecided on the paid time. It's not like I ever use more than six icons, anyway....

(Sweet Jesus, it's 105° out. DO NOT WANT.)