I love seeing people talk about this, because I think the conversation between you and your wife reveals the fact that we all remained quite siloed on the internet, whether that silo is on LJ, DW, or your wordpress blog. My primary fandom is primary based in LJ. And I always xpost my fic to my DW and the relevant DW comms in addition to perusing and commenting on the fic I see there. But those comms have about, oh, one-tenth the membership of the LJ comms, and I'd be lying if I said that I would be happy with the low level of participation and feedback I receive over here.
A sociologist friend of mine said that people are like pendulums, they are content to stay at the resting point until some giant outer force moves them to another point. To be honest, the number of people who care about the gender issue in a passionate way? Not that big, compared to LJ's overall user base. The wonky script thing? That happened to me, but I didn't even know what it was--I thought maybe it was a problem with my cheapie laptop, or my office's problem-laden network full of outdated, virus ridden PCs. And then it was fixed, and I forgot about it. I (and I assume many others) didn't have the tech savvy to even think that the problem may have had its origins in LJ. I'd say the same thing to the issue of redirected links.
I'm not saying that your concerns aren't valid. I'm just saying that 1)not everyone is aware these problems are happening, and as (it seems that) most people who stay on top of LJ's misbehavior are now on DW, the LJ folk never will know; and 2)I think a lot of people, sadly, just don't care.
I'd like to say I have some kind of solution to this, but unfortunately, I'm coming up empty handed.
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I love seeing people talk about this, because I think the conversation between you and your wife reveals the fact that we all remained quite siloed on the internet, whether that silo is on LJ, DW, or your wordpress blog. My primary fandom is primary based in LJ. And I always xpost my fic to my DW and the relevant DW comms in addition to perusing and commenting on the fic I see there. But those comms have about, oh, one-tenth the membership of the LJ comms, and I'd be lying if I said that I would be happy with the low level of participation and feedback I receive over here.
A sociologist friend of mine said that people are like pendulums, they are content to stay at the resting point until some giant outer force moves them to another point. To be honest, the number of people who care about the gender issue in a passionate way? Not that big, compared to LJ's overall user base. The wonky script thing? That happened to me, but I didn't even know what it was--I thought maybe it was a problem with my cheapie laptop, or my office's problem-laden network full of outdated, virus ridden PCs. And then it was fixed, and I forgot about it. I (and I assume many others) didn't have the tech savvy to even think that the problem may have had its origins in LJ. I'd say the same thing to the issue of redirected links.
I'm not saying that your concerns aren't valid. I'm just saying that 1)not everyone is aware these problems are happening, and as (it seems that) most people who stay on top of LJ's misbehavior are now on DW, the LJ folk never will know; and 2)I think a lot of people, sadly, just don't care.
I'd like to say I have some kind of solution to this, but unfortunately, I'm coming up empty handed.