We have an apology...

[lyore]

LJ issues a statement

Well, took 'em long enough, but looks like our journals are going back up. They better, or there'll be hell to pay.

At least they are admitting they made a mistake.

ETA: Reading through the comments to the post, I'm starting to feel sympathy and a tiny bit of admiration for barakb25. None of it excuses the complete lack of communication (not to mention the absolute fuck-up in the first place), but he sounds sincere, apologetic, and dignified in his statements. (Chris Williams, start taking notes - this is how you apologise!) Of course, I retain the right to withdraw this comment if the communities and journals don't get back up in the next couple of days :)

Comments

[seldear.livejournal.com]

I'm cynical. When advertising money is involved, I am deeply, deeply cynical.

He's dealing well with it, that's for sure. But I'm not entirely convinced that this isn't just more of "the motive is money" since a lot of people have started making noise about taking their account money elsewhere.

And the overall attitude displayed over the last few days is not encouraging. Even a "we know there's shit going down, please wait while we sort it out - we will have an answer for you, but you have to be patient" post would have appeased the masses somewhat.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as we keep having the money on *our* side, I don't mind if that is his reason :P

Yes, I agree that something should have been said before now. I don't think they expected half the reaction they got. (And I'm somewhat cynical, and think that if they hadn't deleted pornish_pixies, there would have been a lot less mainstream fannish involvement. Which wouldn't make SA's actions any more reasonable, mind you.)

Right now, I'm just waiting to see if things go back up. They can't go back in time and fix their fuck-ups, but they can damn well try and fix them now.