on permanent accounts
Jun. 4th, 2005 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriThe big news now is that permanent accounts are getting bumped up to 100 userpics. This means, I'm assuming, all permanent accounts and not just the ones being purchased this time. Don't know for sure, but a few others seem to think so too.
Yes, $150 is a lot of money. And I'm sure eventually it'll be available as a paid feature. The thing I don't understand (from skimming the comments in the above linked entry) is why people are getting so pissy that a permanent account is getting something a paid account is not. If I were going to throw in for a permanent account, I damn will better have something I can hold over the heads of regular paid users - that's why I shelled out the bucks. Well, that and the fact that I wouldn't have to pay for LJ ever again.
That's the thing -- being a paid member is optional. You don't have to do anything. But being a paying member anywhere will always get you priviledges. It's sort of wrong, but that's how it works. If I'm paying for the top tier, I don't want the people below me to have access to the same options and getting to pay less money.
The bitching at the LJ staff and demanding this and that... I dunno. Maybe, yeah, that's how permanent members are getting the 100 userpics now but to me it just seems almost petty and ungrateful. Not really the people who are gathering petitions for change -- because those people are actually forming a plan with intent to present it rationally. And I'm not even really talking about the people who are bitching in their own LJ because, hey, it's your LJ - you bitch all you want. I'm talking about the people who comment in the news LJ and just spam the entry and the staff with nasty comments. Geez, seriously. WTF? If you hate LJ that much take your business elsewhere - set up your own blog.
Now I've suddenly lost my train of thought and I'm probably just being bitchy, so whatever. What the hell do I care anyway? I already have a permanent account and I've gotten plenty of use out of it. Hell, I remember when I first jumped on LJ and was happy using 3 icons and the generator layout. I'd be lying if I said I'd be okay going back to that; LJ is partially about the shiny and pretty now. However, what I get most out of LJ is sharing interests with people and making new friends.
And having a place to post my bitchy rants.
Yes, $150 is a lot of money. And I'm sure eventually it'll be available as a paid feature. The thing I don't understand (from skimming the comments in the above linked entry) is why people are getting so pissy that a permanent account is getting something a paid account is not. If I were going to throw in for a permanent account, I damn will better have something I can hold over the heads of regular paid users - that's why I shelled out the bucks. Well, that and the fact that I wouldn't have to pay for LJ ever again.
That's the thing -- being a paid member is optional. You don't have to do anything. But being a paying member anywhere will always get you priviledges. It's sort of wrong, but that's how it works. If I'm paying for the top tier, I don't want the people below me to have access to the same options and getting to pay less money.
The bitching at the LJ staff and demanding this and that... I dunno. Maybe, yeah, that's how permanent members are getting the 100 userpics now but to me it just seems almost petty and ungrateful. Not really the people who are gathering petitions for change -- because those people are actually forming a plan with intent to present it rationally. And I'm not even really talking about the people who are bitching in their own LJ because, hey, it's your LJ - you bitch all you want. I'm talking about the people who comment in the news LJ and just spam the entry and the staff with nasty comments. Geez, seriously. WTF? If you hate LJ that much take your business elsewhere - set up your own blog.
Now I've suddenly lost my train of thought and I'm probably just being bitchy, so whatever. What the hell do I care anyway? I already have a permanent account and I've gotten plenty of use out of it. Hell, I remember when I first jumped on LJ and was happy using 3 icons and the generator layout. I'd be lying if I said I'd be okay going back to that; LJ is partially about the shiny and pretty now. However, what I get most out of LJ is sharing interests with people and making new friends.
And having a place to post my bitchy rants.
