The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jared:

@# 19 Bill

I and many others would have rather had our rent raised. Either that or they could have introduced a more tiered rent. Say, $5, $10, $25, and $50 for example. I currently pay $35 a year ($25 for a paid account status and $10 for extra icons. $25 a year is nothing.

Cable Television works the same way, their subscribers pay x ammount of dollars for x ammount of channels and features. Yes, they advertise, but they are honest about it. (And I know cable was founded on no advertising, so I guess you win that arguement.)

Teresa,

What you don't know is that FAQ didn't exist until just recently. It was quietly slipped in without any annoucement to the users of Livejournal. LiveJournal has been up to this point completely ad free. This was a promise that the original founder gave to us and when Brad sold to SixApart, they promised us that they would keep the site completely ad free. The community of Livejournal has always very vocaly told SixApart we do not want ads, we would gladly pay to use several times. In the last six months or so SixApart has deceptively started to slip in the changes that were annouced as quietly as possible over the weekend.

Again, the FAQ you point to is new, I would assume it was created September 8th, 2006 since that is when it was last updated.

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