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Cozy Migration Problems
Migration...
...because we want a new start
and still a lot of people are only willing to move because they can take all old entries and comments with to the new place.
Is it a new start when you only move if all of your friends do too?
Can you only feel cozy on DW if you have the same communities with the same name and maintainers?
Already I have seen people who don't really want to participate in open or closed beta but still hunt for codes like maniacs just because they need to be the maintainers of a certain community and are afraid that someone else will be faster and "steal" the community because the "enemy" is elitist enough to have gotten a code.
There are of course other code hunting maniacs:
Either they want into the closed beta to prove - to the world or just themself - that they belong to the elitist and/or BNF crowd.
Others just want to make sure to safe a certain name in case they will one day be "forced" to move because everybody else has already done.
Others cling to LJ just like they did to maillists and the usenet in the past.
I have been unfriended on LJ by a DW critic just because I announced to have a DW account.
They feel like they don't matter enough as soon as they see DW mentioned on a flist and hate users who only allow comments on DW, because using OpenID is either "too complicated" or "giving in to the new enemy that is DW"
...because we want a new start
and still a lot of people are only willing to move because they can take all old entries and comments with to the new place.
Is it a new start when you only move if all of your friends do too?
Can you only feel cozy on DW if you have the same communities with the same name and maintainers?
Already I have seen people who don't really want to participate in open or closed beta but still hunt for codes like maniacs just because they need to be the maintainers of a certain community and are afraid that someone else will be faster and "steal" the community because the "enemy" is elitist enough to have gotten a code.
There are of course other code hunting maniacs:
Either they want into the closed beta to prove - to the world or just themself - that they belong to the elitist and/or BNF crowd.
Others just want to make sure to safe a certain name in case they will one day be "forced" to move because everybody else has already done.
Others cling to LJ just like they did to maillists and the usenet in the past.
I have been unfriended on LJ by a DW critic just because I announced to have a DW account.
They feel like they don't matter enough as soon as they see DW mentioned on a flist and hate users who only allow comments on DW, because using OpenID is either "too complicated" or "giving in to the new enemy that is DW"
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The problem is getting them only so you have them, but not really do something with it
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Snagging usernames just to have them/keep others from them isn't cool (although in specific instances I can see how it might be acceptable for very well-known comms like pornish_pixies? even though I don't like it.).
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I am a moderator on a big community for a book series/author on LJ, and we're lucky that we only have a problematic entry once every few months.
I partly agree on names of big communities.
On one hand I can understand of wantig to protect the name from people who just want to have it, on the other hand it would be interresting to see what other people could make out of a community like Pornish pixies (like another close comm, just with other artists)