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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2010-01-23 11:55 pm
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[identity profile] fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Saturday, 1642: All the deleted users in the back entries of <^>suggestions are depressing.
I'm kind of glad I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-01-24 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
When I see that, it says to me that someone has moved on in life, and whatever hopes and dreams and visions they had when holding that journal did not make the jump. So there they sit.

Even when I know that they moved themselves to somewhere like DW, the deleted journal sitting there in suggestions stares at me accusingly, and I wonder if there's something more I could have done to prevent whatever loss of faith in LJ -- as I'm questioning my own, and wondering if the next bump is going to be the one that knocks me off.
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[identity profile] fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
When I see a deleted journal I can't help but think about why they deleted instead of just leaving it behind. In Suggestions I figure most of the people who were commenters there finally got fed up with some aspect of the LJ politic (that I only became aware of two or three years ago) and deleted in protest or anger. In some of my other communities it's less clear - did they move on and just delete as an easy way to stop the endless e-mails? Did they want to delete some entries or remove them from public view?
I still find it easy to separate faith in LJ the service from LJ the company, but like I said I've not been following the LJ politic for as long as you have.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-01-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't underestimate the number of people who delete and sometimes stay on LJ, just to get free of social entanglements. I've at least one person on my list who's been around nearly from the beginning of my time here, and has gone through several renames and/or new journals to get some distance from old bad-influence friends and unhealthful habits.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-01-24 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
People in suggestions fall into a couple camps, generally --

The long-term people invested in the service, who made several suggestions entries over a length of time, and who comment on many entries, are likely to have deleted in protest/anger/grief/disillusionment if they're deleted.

The people who have made a scattershot handful of suggestions either spaced out through the years but with very little comment engagement outside their own submissions, or the people who have a small cluster of suggestions and comments on the suggestions around theirs, who are likely to have been quite engaged with the site, if not the LJ politic, and who would have a more typical to the average demographic reason for deleting.

The people who have one suggestion, ever, with no comments on other suggestions, or who came to suggestions for one issue and found or were directed to the entry with the thing they wanted, but with a moderate to high amount of engagement with the site predating their suggestion, may either have deleted for typical reasons or because they had given up waiting for the killer feature they wanted.

People who have little to no engagement with the site prior to making a suggestion will sometimes delete while still in the queue, as they've found what they want and what the site is, are not a good match, or the learning curve is too steep.
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