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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2007-08-07 10:33 pm

How LJ can do better...

Well, SixApart finally posted a clarification in the [livejournal.com profile] lj_biz.

My response to their question: How can we do better?

Hire a PR professional! Putting up this [livejournal.com profile] theljstaff account was good first step, but frankly, your customer relations have been a disaster since the fight over banning default icons showing breastfeeding. You need a professional to mediate between the decision makers and the customers, badly.

Publish the guidelines for the LJ Abuse Team, have a transparent appeals process, and abide by the rules you've set yourself. Half the people on my f-list are pissed because SixApart's inconsistency and incoherency, not to mention the insult of telling artists that their works have "no artistic merit".

Fire [livejournal.com profile] burr86, or at least require him to apologize and then keep him away from customer relations *forever*. At any well-run company, he'd have been canned immediately for insulting the customers like that.

And don't let [livejournal.com profile] anildash post 'fuck yous' to the customer base! That's entirely unprofessional behavior from a VP!

Mostly, I've just been appalled by the behavior of the LJ staff and worried about how badly they've treated people who just want coherent answers.

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