Are you now or have you ever been...

A part of any fandom, ever? If so, stand up and be counted by joining fandom_counts. Please. I'm begging you. It's just a body-count: you don't have to do anything but click through and join. Let's show LJ that fandom is a force to be reckoned with.

There's so much information flying around about the great LJ purge. I'm so grateful to everyone who's taking the time to summarise it. I can't possibly read it all.

I started reading the comments on the most recent news post last night - there's a hell of a lot to go through but it's very educational.

[ETA: Like the fact that "Warriors for Innocence" is a right-wing fanatic "organisation" made up of three people. No legitimate links to law enforcement. Like the fact that LJ users have reported a man who openly admitted to being a child molestor in his own LJ, and friended parents who posted about their own children, and LJ refused to ban this obvious predator from their site or even advise users on how to ban him from their own LJs. Like the fact that communites created to spread hatred and incite violence have been reported to LJ abuse and not banned. Way to go, LJ.]

Also there's innocence_jihad where ongoing updates are being collected and sevenfandomdays where folks are attempting to devise a co-ordinated protest against these unfair deletions.

In possibly good news, some deleted journals are apparently back. Though not the fandom ones, so far. If and when LJ reinstate pornish_pixies I'll consider sanity returned. I'm not into HP fandom, but this seems to be the major fandom "trigger point". Also, I note that so far none of the SPN communities I've joined have been purged. This gives me hope.

More on LJ deletions

They just posted that fandom and fiction LJs that were deleted will be restored. Good news!

On the other hand, innocence_jihad collected a list of deleted journals and comms in this post. A quick glance down the list shows the freaking huge number of unnecessary deletions (they're the ones with no strikethrough).

Oh, boy, did they screw this one up!