stand up and be counted

Snurched directly from marag:

If you consider yourself a member of fandom: if you discuss comics, books, movies, or television on LJ; if you read or write fic; if you use LJ to connect with other fans, join fandom_counts.

As seimaisin points out, you need to join with all of your accounts, including fic journals, role-playing journals, etc., in order to provide the most accurate possible account.

When fandom_counts maxes out, they have backup comms available, so please do join.

LJ says they have 13 million accounts, but I'll bet ours are the most active and some of the most likely to be paid or permanent!

Fandom does count, darn it.

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And since I know most of my f-list isn't super-fannish, think of it as a census exercise.

too little, too late

For those of you who've been keeping up with the drama: LJ has finally issued a statement.

IMO, it's too little, too late.

This statement - or a placeholder statement - twenty-four hours earlier would have worked wonders to staunch the blood. Now, it's one great mess, and there's no telling if the fandom limb will ever be the same, even after the massive emergency surgery to reattach it.

I'll be sticking around, and my paid account apparently holds through until Feb '08. After that...well, it depends on whether 6A and LJ manage to redeem themselves.

I might even be entirely out of fandom by then. We can hope! :D