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So.
LJ has made it so that you can't make a new "basic" account anymore. But there is still demand for basic accounts---it's all I ever wanted. This makes my basic account a valuable commodity. I would save my entries on my computer and then delete the ones on LJ, I would change my password to something neutral, move my flist to a paid journal, and then hand over the account to someone who gave me a couple hundred bucks. Maybe there could be a rename token in there, too. I move on to a paid journal with enough money to finance it for a few years.
Certainly other people are thinking this, which means that one of three things may happen.
Outcome number 1: SUP hears about it and permits it. Illicit trade of basic accounts flourishes. People with lots of RP journals make approx. one metric fuckton of money, people without scream. We would still rather be able to make basic accounts than make money off of them. Many people leave Livejournal with hurt feelings.
Outcome number 2: SUP hears about it and does not permit it. Specifically, they make up some bullshit rules about not reselling their product, and say it's to protect their poor users and their good name. However, everybody continues to break the rules, because they still want the mystical legendary basic accounts! This can go back to outcome number one, or it can go to a new outcome: SUP begins to phase out basic accounts to keep the rulebreakers from doing all that bad, bad rulebreaking.
Outcome number 3: SUP hears about this and stops being so fucking retarded. Basic accounts can be created again. The userbase is happy and does what everyone wants it to, which is writing fanfic that draws other people in.
I still don't want to buy a paid account because I don't want to enter into a contract with these people, but I am afraid for my basic account.
tl;dr someone make up some rules about SUP not frauding me
P.S. Speaking of mystical legendary basic accounts, who wants to start a team of superheroes who take their powers from basic accounts to fight evil? Yes, we would be power rangers, or maybe Sailor soldiers. There would be a lot of posing and silliness. If you want in, name a color. I call pink.
愛と正義の基本アカウントレンジャー戦隊誕生希望。
LJ has made it so that you can't make a new "basic" account anymore. But there is still demand for basic accounts---it's all I ever wanted. This makes my basic account a valuable commodity. I would save my entries on my computer and then delete the ones on LJ, I would change my password to something neutral, move my flist to a paid journal, and then hand over the account to someone who gave me a couple hundred bucks. Maybe there could be a rename token in there, too. I move on to a paid journal with enough money to finance it for a few years.
Certainly other people are thinking this, which means that one of three things may happen.
Outcome number 1: SUP hears about it and permits it. Illicit trade of basic accounts flourishes. People with lots of RP journals make approx. one metric fuckton of money, people without scream. We would still rather be able to make basic accounts than make money off of them. Many people leave Livejournal with hurt feelings.
Outcome number 2: SUP hears about it and does not permit it. Specifically, they make up some bullshit rules about not reselling their product, and say it's to protect their poor users and their good name. However, everybody continues to break the rules, because they still want the mystical legendary basic accounts! This can go back to outcome number one, or it can go to a new outcome: SUP begins to phase out basic accounts to keep the rulebreakers from doing all that bad, bad rulebreaking.
Outcome number 3: SUP hears about this and stops being so fucking retarded. Basic accounts can be created again. The userbase is happy and does what everyone wants it to, which is writing fanfic that draws other people in.
I still don't want to buy a paid account because I don't want to enter into a contract with these people, but I am afraid for my basic account.
tl;dr someone make up some rules about SUP not frauding me
P.S. Speaking of mystical legendary basic accounts, who wants to start a team of superheroes who take their powers from basic accounts to fight evil? Yes, we would be power rangers, or maybe Sailor soldiers. There would be a lot of posing and silliness. If you want in, name a color. I call pink.
愛と正義の基本アカウントレンジャー戦隊誕生希望。
