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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Conspiracy versus cock-up
I'd bet on a cock-up every time.
Re: Conspiracy versus cock-up