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As I said,

(This "show ads to not-logged-in readers seeing basic users' journals" business is obviously not so toxic to every basic user. Some post friends-only, so nobody can see their entries without being logged in anyhow; others don't expect, or don't care about, random strangers' and their impressions; some consider the ads to be such an insignificant factor that they're just not concerned regardless (though why anyone who thinks that wouldn't get a Plus account instead eludes me). We don't all have the same priorities here.)

So yeah, your position is as reasonable as mine and merely reflects different purposes, usage patterns, and priorities regarding your journal. And (also as I said above) if LJ had earned my trust and respect by now, then I would already have a paid account again and this replacemt of basic accounts with an ad-supported version wouldn't affect me directly, so deciding just how much I should care would require more thought. (With a paid account, as it stands now, nobody ever sees ads on your journal except for Plus users, who have explicitly chosen to have ads served to them. Though there is the question -- here's that trust problem again -- of whether LJ will decide to do the same thing with paid accounts in the future if they don't get as much money as they expected from the so-called-basic accounts alone.

Even so, even if it did affect your journal, one difference would still be that I happen to know I have a bunch of 'unwashed' readers and do care about how my journal looks to the non-LJ-user audience. This difference probably indicates that we have slightly different motivations for blogging in the first place, which is to be expected. Note that I'm not making any arguments about what other people should do in their own journals, merely attempting to explain why I'm doing what I'm doing with my own.