I've read thru the info & maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what the problem is. An employee of LJ posted in a thread in a community that is set-up to mock anyone & everyone & somehow he is in trouble for doing the same thing lots of other people are doing? Especially when most of the comments seem to be people saying things for fun & trying to one-up the other thread poster & don't have anything to do with the original post.
Also, the posts were deleted by the community maintainer, not by LJ or the employee.
I feel it was inappropriate because he did it in a journal he uses to give official lj statements. If he did it in a private journal, I have no issues, but he made these comments in (what could be perceived) as his role as an lj spokesperson not an lj employee. There is a slight, but important difference.
If you'd actually look at his LJ (http://burr86.livejournal.com/ the account that he's posting all this in) you'll find it's NOT a work account, it's his personal LJ account. He's got work related stuff in there (which isn't odd for a LJ, just look at maderr or starparty), but he also has just random crap in there. He wasn't posting using any "spokesperson" account, he was using HIS account.
Also the guy apparently is one of the engineers, which probably makes him more qualified to say how things are doing server/code wise (which he does in a few offical lj communities) & he's probably doing that because the acutal "spokesperson" doesn't have a clue about those things. I've had to talk to customers on things before at my job, but that doesn't make me any "spokesperson" for my employer.
Ahhh kay - well then its not so bad - all I'd heard was that he was posting in an account used as a lj spokesperson account. He has the right to post whatever he wants in a personal journal, whereever he wants. However I pesonally don't think it was in the best of taste and good sense, but there should not be want flying that is.
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Date: 2007-08-05 10:43 pm (UTC)Also, the posts were deleted by the community maintainer, not by LJ or the employee.
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Date: 2007-08-06 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-06 03:37 am (UTC)Also the guy apparently is one of the engineers, which probably makes him more qualified to say how things are doing server/code wise (which he does in a few offical lj communities) & he's probably doing that because the acutal "spokesperson" doesn't have a clue about those things. I've had to talk to customers on things before at my job, but that doesn't make me any "spokesperson" for my employer.
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Date: 2007-08-06 04:46 am (UTC)