Eh, it's mostly quieted down after Anil Dash apologized, claiming he was responsible for something or other about the language.

It's not really a systematic weeding, though. If it were a weeding, LJ would operate like DeviantArt, where people are encouraged to maintain content standards by reporting things to the staff. Instead they got rid of... two people? There are probably hundreds whom they could effortlessly get rid of on those grounds.

Same comm too. It seems that someone is grudgy. Personally, I think it's someone inside of HP fandom who's doing the reporting. For various reasons, I doubt it's one of the activist groups, and it's certainly not /b/.

Oh, that was announced in news, the Pepsi layout. That is also engendering controversy. To be honest, I think the pepsi thing is going to affect LJ's business more than the fandom thing.

Nah, I don't think they care at all about the 'high profile.' I seriously doubt that they have any idea who is popular and who is not in the HP fandom. I think the thing is that they're not focusing on fandom, they're focusing on content. And some of this content that they have now decided they're going to clearly ban (it's not clear to me if this was always their policy. It might be that this was what it always was, but no one had reported fanart before) falls into the category of fanworks.

Well, given that one of the images removed was flocked, it would have to be? But I think it's not really someone external, as troll implies, but someone in fandom, although this is just my hunch.

They also deleted some anime communities in the first one, as well as pedophile groups, the lolita spanish reading community, and some support journals. I really don't think it is a deliberate attempt to target HP, otherwise we would see much more than one or two journals being deleted this round.

Of course it's Harry Potter again. There's a corporation the size of a planet that doesn't want anyone else's dirty fingers touching their property.

Am I the only one wondering why the ones being targeted are HP slash artists? It's almost like a sort of warning - "don't want to be banned? Don't post HP p0rn!"

At this rate, even my mostly-above-legal-age fandoms will be moving because their artworks are being judged on how much the characters LOOK like underage peeps instead of the age statement being relied upon.

Or maybe, just maybe, someone at LJ totally hates manga/anime and sees this as a great chance to get rid of not just the fandoms, but the art style as well (after all, manga style produces a lot of underage-looking characters).

Conspiracies ahoy!