eftychia: Spaceship superimposed on a whirling vortex (departure)
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 09:09pm on 2008-03-17

Hmm. The censorious filtering of the most-popular-interests page on LiveJournal was implemented 2008-03-06 and reverted this afternoon. So the question that suggests to me is, was there an especially important presentation to advertisers and/or investors between 6 March and 17 March? Was it so quietly and quickly undone once it was discovered because they realized what a big error it was, or because it had already served its purpose? If the fudged data were shown to people being asked to make business decisions based on how it made the LJ user population look, are those people getting email apologizing for having been given false information?

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twistedchick: watercolor painting of coffee cup on wood table (Default)
posted by [personal profile] twistedchick at 01:25am on 2008-03-18
Excellent questions.
zenlizard: Because the current occupation is fascist. (Default)
posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 01:47am on 2008-03-18
Just what are those conspiracy theorists up to, anyway?
 
posted by [identity profile] n5red.livejournal.com at 02:49am on 2008-03-18
Just remember: shiny side out!
 
posted by [identity profile] weskeag.livejournal.com at 09:43am on 2008-03-18
See email @ panix
 
posted by [identity profile] miss-whiplash.livejournal.com at 07:20pm on 2008-03-18
Conspiracies require effort, planning and organization, cock-ups are a manifestation of entropy and just happen.

I'd bet on a cock-up every time.
 
On the other hand, sometimes there really are conspiracies. As a friend of mine likes to say, "It's not a conspiracy theory if there really are conspirators."

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