Thinking of moving?

[j_v_lynch]

Gentle Readers,

There are two things that make me glad that I've decided to start using Dreamwidth as my main blog (although I will be cross posting). The first is that I've started getting spam to my LJ email address.

The second is that they are apparently selling ad space to NOM (if you don't know who they are, I'm happy for you).

I have a couple of invite codes. If you are interested, let me know. I'll be giving preference to people I know and who post fairly regularly as I'm selfish like that.

Comments

[damned_colonial]

They probably aren't selling that ad space directly, nor did they choose to have that advertiser there. LJ would be working through an ad network, and that would probably be a "remainder" ad, which is what ends up in a space if nobody's explicitly bid for it. Since ads on social media are doomed to failure, *nobody* wants to bid for decent ads on social networking sites, so you get a high proportion of this sort of toxic crap.

[j_v_lynch]

That article is excellent. I read it after you posted it in your journal. I agree that it's likely that LJ did not choose the advertiser, however the fact that it comes up at all is unpleasant.

No ads at all is much better.