I'm going to reframe the question: How exactly, did people get the idea that communities would _EVER_ be imported? I've been following Dreamwidth since before it was called "Dreamwidth", and I never once got the impression that community imports would be something supported.
Sure, importing your own journal is wonderful, and I'm happy to now have a back up of 7 years and 4300 LJ posts. With all 17,000 comments even. But the importantion of a community is a technical, legal, and social nightmare. (1) Sure, the ability to import a community that you have worked very hard on is nice. But scale the idea up. Ohnotheydidnt, metaquotes, metafandom, or the late scansdaily and pornish pixies. Even assuming that the mods were interested? I am writing the fandom_wank entry right now, And it would make the issue of mysteriously pasted on hobbits, protest boobs, and the magical power of hairclips and sparkly lipgloss to cure cancer seem tame. And if I was starting a business (2), I would obviously want to start at the beginning by spending very scarce fiscal, emotional, and technical resources dealing with internet lawyers angry about the unauthorized duplication of their gynocalgically detailed pre-pubescent Hermionie Granger fan art. That is the kind of thing that can attract the attention of real lawyers, real copyright experts, real expenses, and of course, real cat macros. Norabombay : at LJ & Dreamwidth 1. Single poster communities excepted. If the only thing in it is your own creation? Different story. 2. Dreamwidth is a business with great principles, a great code of ethics, and a great TOS. But it is a business. And I would like to see the servers paid for, and the full time employees able to do such awesome things as 'buy groceries' and 'pay the electric bill' with the money they earn by being full time employees.
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