I'm going to continue my current habit of locking down comments in old (year or more ago) posts since I assume all legit comments have been made already, and see what happens. If this selection protects future posts it's still an improvement.

As for Dreamwidth - it's not the first time I've seen someone come up with a new LJ equivalent, and I've had at least one of 'em shot out from under me (which at least proved that my lifetime membership was a REAL lifetime membership - it lasted until the journal died) and seen a couple more vanish without participating. So I'm not dropping LJ. It'll have to get impressively worse, first - thus far the thing DOES seem to survive if despite itself on occasion.

Digging out an old icon from LJ Wars Past (the fanfic debacle).