A thought

I've been thinking about something for a few days now.... I think it's a good idea that I would like to see take off in the LJ community. If you agree, please turn this post into a meme and see that it spreads to others.

Often, it seems, unpaid LJ users go to paid users asking for journal creation codes to give to friends they want to invite. The paid users often have more than enough that they can give some away, so the request is generally granted by someone with a paid account on the unpaid users's friends list.

Nothing is inherently wrong with that practice, but I think the LJ community would benefit from a change. What if, instead of having journal creation codes given to them by paid users, unpaid users took the time to help out with support requests, thereby eventually earning a journal creation code? Or made a contribution to LJ itself, which was acknowledged as such by a previously acknowledged contributor? Or hell, even paid five dollars to get a paid account for two months and recieve two journal creation codes? These are all ways that are already in place for people to earn extra LJ codes, and all of them involve giving something back to LJ itself, which is something that benefits all of us.

I know I'm definately going to be checking out the incoming support requests from now on, and earning any creation codes I may need on my own.