Because "AdequateJournal" is too on-the-nose?

[sigma7]

GreatestJournal has struck an iceberg and is sinking. Essentially admins can't be arsed to (sorry, that was harsh, but still...) give support other than to abandon ship to InsaneJournal. Not a huge surprise, but disappointing. For fun, read its news journal to listen to its resources fold and crash sequentially. The StrikeThrough exodus obviously hammered its resources beyond its capacity, and I do feel a little sorry for it -- but for those of us who had trouble differentiating between GJ and IJ, it's a bit easier now: one works, one doesn't.

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

My problem with that is that in that "donation" process, it's not as much a literal donation as it is a payment for a specific service -- that service being preferential placement in the renaming queue. That service becomes meaningless and useless when GJ gets abandoned, and that's not right.

If it were purely a bona-fide donation, that's one thing. But payment for a service is a whole other monster.

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

Hence my deployment of the quotes. Since I'm pretending to be in a generous mood I'm going to assume that the volunteer who was collecting the funds was not aware that GJ was about to go butt up when s/he accepted the money; however, by making sure the payments were labeled "Donations" s/he may have been setting themselves up with an easy out that wouldn't require returning the funds if the services were unable to be completed.

Of course, I really have no actual clue what's being going on over there.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Me either. Suddenly LJ looks polished and professional instead of run by the executives of the Box Network from Bender's Big Score.

Yeah, I have the feeling the individual who received the donations was just someone else who was set-up-us-the-bomb by the whole "screw you guys, I'm goin' home" administrative approach. I wish that were an option in my line of work....