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Hmm. I scored eight out of ten on the Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer quiz. But I guessed a lot.

Apparently, a few hours ago, LJ removed the filter that p revented certain popular interests (faeries, depression, sex, bondage, etc.) from being listed in the most popular interests on LJ page. As of the last time I looked (about half an hour ago) there was no word from LJ about why the filter was implemented or apologizing for it. At this moment it looks as though they did something they hoped nobody would notice (again!) and then quietly tried to undo it once they got caught, hoping that the noise being raised about it would die down. (I do not expect that perception to change, but I include the qualifier just in case SUP/LJ manages to handle this any better than they've done in the past.)

rydra_wong asked for an explanation that preferably "doesn't make it look like you think fandom, LGBT people, and people with mental illnesses are an embarrassment to your fine journaling service." But that just makes me wonder in response: if that is the reason, is it better to get the politically savvy spin (assuming they can make the spin believable for a change) or to just get the hatred/embarassment/whatever out in the open at last so we can stop playing this game of "That makes you look like you hate ____!" "Oh no, we didn't mean it that way ... we hear your complaints and will do better next time for sure!" "But Bullwinkle, that trick never works!" -- and proceed on to the step where each of us can stop being polite about it and proceed to unambiguous, unhesitant actions?

Of course, what I really hope for is that it turns out to have been mere incompetence and SUP turns out to be capable of learning from its mistakes, but neither of those currently looks likely. And the probability of an unlikely thing times the probability of another unlikely thing yields an extremely unlikely combination-of-things.