LJ, why do you keep getting creepier?
Sep. 22nd, 2010 01:11 pmCopied from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rydra_wong
I just have no words for this. How could anyone think that was okay behavior? A staff member having a sockpuppet account so he could troll people who dared disagree with LJ's decisions? An employee abusing the customers should be grounds for firing, regardless of the Aspergers crack. Not to mention invading users' privacy to comment on locked entries, using staff privileges in a creepy-stalkery way. Quite frankly, I know lots of people are hopping mad about the Facebook thing, but I really don't care about it one way or the other. The behavior of LJ's employees throughout this? That matters to me. They say they've "dealt with this internally." All I can say is, I would be much more comfortable continuing to use LJ if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brenden no longer worked there, and if LJ had been willing to make a formal statement on the subject of how they were going to prevent this in the future.
rydra_wong dw_news post included taunting a user about having Asperger's.
He apparently checked their profile, and then commented to them with Enjoy your Asperger's. (How's that for trolling?).
I am not okay with this behaviour on the part of an LJ staffer. I am not okay with any of his behaviour, but that stings on a personal level.
Not in a huge epic drama way -- really, that's the least of my problems right now -- but enough that I wanted to mention it. Because it's a particular form of suckage and apparently LJ thinks it's just peachy.
ETA: The closest LJ's come to an official statement on this and other staff misbehaviour.
I just have no words for this. How could anyone think that was okay behavior? A staff member having a sockpuppet account so he could troll people who dared disagree with LJ's decisions? An employee abusing the customers should be grounds for firing, regardless of the Aspergers crack. Not to mention invading users' privacy to comment on locked entries, using staff privileges in a creepy-stalkery way. Quite frankly, I know lots of people are hopping mad about the Facebook thing, but I really don't care about it one way or the other. The behavior of LJ's employees throughout this? That matters to me. They say they've "dealt with this internally." All I can say is, I would be much more comfortable continuing to use LJ if
brenden no longer worked there, and if LJ had been willing to make a formal statement on the subject of how they were going to prevent this in the future.
