Autobot Cassettes - Good Things In Small Packages

Greetings community members.

As many of you are now aware, Livejournal has transferred complete ownership and control over to their Russian counterpart company (a move we all knew would happen eventually, when they were bought out a few years ago) and updated their Terms and Conditions to force anyone using the platform to comply with Russian law regarding content, publication and speech.

This makes the content of this community questionable at best and obscene at worst. The site admins could, at any time, decide to simply delete this (and similar) fandom communities without notice. Also, related to the control move, Livejournal lost its SSL status earlier this week (it is currently restored, however that is always subject to change,) meaning that it could begin carrying malicious software and become vulnerable to a multitude of other threats.

With these issues in mind, cassetteobots is moving completely to Dreamwidth as of this week.

I have spent the last month contemplating a permanent move as my fellow mods and I scrambled to back up communities and duplicate content. We refused to let them shut down our fandom and erase our history, but it is in the best interest of the fandom to move the community to a safer platform. Cassetteobots has only recently been available over there but, all posts are copied over, comments preserved and tags imported. And, while this community will be officially closed it will not be deleted.

Starting from today, cassetteobots will be available exclusively on Dreamwidth.org. However, in case of any new posts happening here on Livejournal, the DW community will back up once a month to preserve them, just in case.

If you are not a DW member, fear not! Joining is free, does not currently require an invite code and runs very much like livejournal. You can even copy over your own personal LJ account and preserve your journal.

So, my fellow fans, as much as it pains me to finally turn off the lights in this creaky old LJ, I hope that you’ll move with us to Dreamwidth and that we can keep having the good times. And even if you don’t come with us, thank you for what you did share.

Find us here: https://cassetteobots.dreamwidth.org/profile

See you soon,
eerian_sadow

There is a site that is copying whole journal entries and fanfics and posting them on their blog and has been since 2011 but only providing the original link not asking permission nor descriminating Between journal posts and fanfiction.

It seems to use a bot to collect certain tagged fics and has already taken fic from rare-pairing.

as a result I'm probably going to lock all my communities to members only as a protection measure. I have also contacted live journal to see if anything can be done.

I've posted the site below please check if your work is there and if you're not happy you can request that they take it down.


http://fanfic-journal.com/

UPDATE: if you are affected (this mod is!) go to the domain's abuse support page and report it! http://www.privacyprotect.org/#report_abuse

LJ is up to some tricks again, and has a bug going around where some people are being banned from communities randomly. this is not deliberate on the part of your mod team, and we are so sorry!

the banned list is being updated to correct this error on LJ's part and we are making sure that the only people banned from the communities are people who have been warned for misconduct and then told by a mod that they have been banned (either in the distant past or in the future). if you have not been notified by a mod that you have been banned and you are, then your ban is in error and we are taking care of that right now.

again, we apologize for this error and we are getting things fixed!

First: voting is still tied for the Minor Damage contest. i cannot award the prizes until we break the tie! voting is open to anyone, so cruise on over here and cast your vote for the first place winner in the fiction category.

Second: the Mid-Month Challenge has zero entries right now, so we're extending it til the end of the month. i know a lot of us were busy with dark_fest and will be busy with springkink but i'm hoping you can fit this one into your schedule somewhere. the theme is "Family" which shouldn't be terribly hard to work with. entries are now due Mon. April 30th.

as of Saturday night at 11:59 PM, the community's first official contest was over! we got three great entries for the contest!

In the fanfic category:

Minor Damage by camfield
Off-Color by newsy891

In the art category:

Cassetteobots Contest Entry by ink_in_hand

and vejiraziel gets an honorable mention for this adorable image that didn't quite make the deadline.

now, it's time to vote for the first place winner in the fiction category! polling will be open until next Monday, March 19th. the prizes will be announced the next day.

[Poll #1825907]

hey everyone, we're at the halfway mark for the Minor Damage contest! entries are due March 2, 2012 at midnight central time, so you still have a chance to enter if you have any flashes of inspiration!

come join us! i really want to give out these gift cards!

It's that time of year again. It's time again for tf_valentine!
Here's how it works:

1) Choose up to 10 people, or more if you want and write a sentence or two about how you feel about them. It could be as simple as "you always make me smile," or "I love your icons." Just something you would like to tell them.

2) Post your list to this entry. You have until midnight (UK time) February 13th to send them in. No exceptions. It can be done anonymously or not, no posters will be revealed and comments are screened.

3) On February 14, a list of all the people who received comments and the comments that they received will be posted without revealing who sent them. Hopefully, lots of you will wake up on Valentine's Day to all kinds of anonymous love!

Please make sure that that the LJ name is correctly noted! If it's not noted correctly, it will go under Unknown.


Please please PLEASE.... PIMP THIS OUT. THE MORE PEOPLE THIS REACHES, THE MORE PEOPLE GET APPRECIATION ON THIS DAY.

Go HERE to leave your messages to those you care for!