Workarounds

[azurelunatic]

I wonder what the regs are for content of syndicated feeds? IIRC, there isn't much, except that the source of the feed has to be OK with it...

So, conceivably, one could snag the RSS feed from a, say, Journalfen site, that might be TOSed for excess wank on LJ, and make it into a syndicated feed, and watch it from the comfort and questionable privacy of one's LJ friends page, without having to go to the Journalfen site to read it, if that were the only major thing on one's friends page.

Thoughts?

Comments

[wibbble]

I have trouble understanding some of that (specifically 'TOSed for excess wank' and 'Journalfen'), but if I'm following it right you're wondering if RSS feeds with stuff LJ doesn't allow would be allowed.

IIRC, if they get 'caught', they get banned, just like any other LJ.

[azurelunatic]

The late, great community fandom_wank was removed for violation of the LJ Terms of Service. In it, people would make snarky comments about The State of the Fandom, especially using particular people and bits of text as examples of Everything that was Mockworthy about a fandom... and then proceeding to mock without mercy.

Journalfen is a fan-run LJ clone that allows/encourages fandom-related stuff, up to and including fandom_wank.

LJ users are not allowed to harass and/or be mean to other LJ users, in general, at least not where they can get caught. I'm thinking that it's a bit of legalistic wrangling to say that Journalfen users mocking other Journalfen users are not LJ users doing the same (though many Journalfen users have LJ accounts) and it might well be legal under LJ's TOS to *observe* members of another community having at each other...

[wibbble]

Aaah.

I'm fairly sure RSS feeds have been killed in that situation before - it counts as 'working around' the ban.

[darthtall.livejournal.com]

It's been tried a couple times before, but the feed always gets yanked in short order. Not sure if the LJ powers that be are keeping an eye out for it or if it's a former wankee with a grudge. *shrug*

[azurelunatic]

Drats. Ah well...

[azurelunatic]

So I now learn. Dang.