Livejournal vs. Fandom: Again

I know, I know, you’re thinking you’ve read this post before, and in a way you have, but this time it’s different.  After Strikethrough and Boldthrough and a few other fan-focused kerfluffles, Six Apart sold popular blogging site and fandom hangout LiveJournal to Russian-owned SUP.  A 100 Day plan was put in place, and clear(er) policy guidelines were created that went a long way to reassuring or placating most users.  If nothing else, users at least felt like they knew where they stood and could make informed decisions about whether or not to continue using the service.

Now, it seems that LiveJournal is editing its “top 100 interests” list which is used to promote the site both to new users and to advertisers, to make it more friendly to some demographic or other.  Abruptly removed from the list, despite research showing the interests in question should still be on the top 100, are interests “fanfiction”, “faeries”, “bisexuality” and “depression.”

Once again, fandom feels unwelcome at LiveJournal despite being longtime financial supporters and content generators for the site.  How this will shake out remains to be seen as no official response from LJ/SUP has been forthcoming.  The question is how many thousands of cat macros it will take to get a response this time.