I really wish things were that simple, sweetling. I have a slightly different perspective; I've got 15+ years in the IT trade. With as many users as LJ now has, the server load has -got- to be near astronomical. Some sort of limits need to be implemented, or the entire thing will topple and die.
My biggest issues are in implementing them without much warning and setting the caps so low.
I belong to two communities, plus my own journal. On an average day, I make 3-4 posts and a dozen or so comments... but my posting number is over the proposed cap. Given that I generally try to have some content in each post, it strikes me a just a /BIT/ low of a threshhold. Given my utterly hashed sleep patterns, 3 posts per 24 hours could definitely hamper me; I have to write when the lucid moments hit, or nothing gets done.
Imposing limits with little to no warning is -not- the kind of move I would have expected from LJ, an organization that touts itself as community based. I know that -something- may well need to be done, but I honestly expected a bit more tact from the procedure.
*shrug* In the end, I know I've little to no voice in the affair. I can't afford at the moment to upgrade my account to paid status, and that's going to leave me out in the cold. I'm more sad than angry, to be honest; most of my most precious family are here on LJ... the two that were conspicuously missing just joined in the last six months. If I have to move, I will, but I don't -want- to... so I'm hoping something a bit more ... well, rationally planned will be put into place.
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Hrmmm...
Date: 2003-02-06 07:52 am (UTC)My biggest issues are in implementing them without much warning and setting the caps so low.
I belong to two communities, plus my own journal. On an average day, I make 3-4 posts and a dozen or so comments... but my posting number is over the proposed cap. Given that I generally try to have some content in each post, it strikes me a just a /BIT/ low of a threshhold. Given my utterly hashed sleep patterns, 3 posts per 24 hours could definitely hamper me; I have to write when the lucid moments hit, or nothing gets done.
Imposing limits with little to no warning is -not- the kind of move I would have expected from LJ, an organization that touts itself as community based. I know that -something- may well need to be done, but I honestly expected a bit more tact from the procedure.
*shrug* In the end, I know I've little to no voice in the affair. I can't afford at the moment to upgrade my account to paid status, and that's going to leave me out in the cold. I'm more sad than angry, to be honest; most of my most precious family are here on LJ... the two that were conspicuously missing just joined in the last six months. If I have to move, I will, but I don't -want- to... so I'm hoping something a bit more ... well, rationally planned will be put into place.
*hugs*
~Ellie-chan