The way I see it, LJ is kind of like one's house (while blogspot and the like are more like one's shop window).
In your LJ, you are expected to keep one's front yard and windows - what's visible to the public - tidy (though it may contain garden gnomes). You're expected to provide a basic level of hospitality to invited guests (friends commenting in your journal), but can reasonably slam the door on door-to-door marketers, especially if they are rude or market something you find nasty. In return, you expect your guests to be nice to you and to your other guests, because they're guests in your home, yo.
In a public Blog (like author blogs, etc.), you're doing something with at least a bit of professionalism in it. You tend to talk about things you think the public will be interested in, and you have to keep everything to a public-acceptable level. People who wander into your "store" can diss what you're selling if they want, and you expect strangers to wander into your "store." If people start fighting you can ask them to leave but they're customers so unless they're driving off other customers most things will be tolerated.
ps. Looking through the comments on the post it seems like the overwhelming feeling is "We don't need to be civil, the world is made of pain!" Rudeness is the new emo?
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In your LJ, you are expected to keep one's front yard and windows - what's visible to the public - tidy (though it may contain garden gnomes). You're expected to provide a basic level of hospitality to invited guests (friends commenting in your journal), but can reasonably slam the door on door-to-door marketers, especially if they are rude or market something you find nasty. In return, you expect your guests to be nice to you and to your other guests, because they're guests in your home, yo.
In a public Blog (like author blogs, etc.), you're doing something with at least a bit of professionalism in it. You tend to talk about things you think the public will be interested in, and you have to keep everything to a public-acceptable level. People who wander into your "store" can diss what you're selling if they want, and you expect strangers to wander into your "store." If people start fighting you can ask them to leave but they're customers so unless they're driving off other customers most things will be tolerated.
ps. Looking through the comments on the post it seems like the overwhelming feeling is "We don't need to be civil, the world is made of pain!" Rudeness is the new emo?