# LiveJournal....HELP!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996 "2002-08-08T17:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhiannon1031](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Rhiannon1031](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon1031)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/1 "2002-08-08T17:43:35Z")
Does anyone on here use LiveJournal? If so,can someone PLEASE generate a code for me? I’ve been dying to use it,but without the code,I can’t. Thanks!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/2 "2002-08-08T19:34:46Z")
Here you go: tk8jzaaaerrv You would be better off eventually getting a paid account, as the servers are faster and you have access to more features. Enjoy! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon1031](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Rhiannon1031](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon1031)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/3 "2002-08-08T20:29:15Z")
ACK! It won’t let me use the code! It said it had already been used… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/4 "2002-08-08T20:43:29Z")
Aww. Maybe someone here saw it and used it before you could. If so, that’s not very nice. ☹ I have a few codes, I’ll give you one. I’ll email you it though, so no one can read it here and use it before you can. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/5 "2002-08-08T20:45:19Z")
Well, if you could give me your e-mail address (it’s not listed in your profile), that is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/6 "2002-08-08T20:54:33Z")
you could also go to [deadjournal.com](http://deadjournal.com) where you don’t need a code and the color schemes are nicer ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/7 "2002-08-08T21:26:43Z")
“Color schemes”? What do you mean? For your personal journal, you can have any colours you want on livejournal, even with a free account. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/8 "2002-08-08T21:46:50Z")
Um…what are the codes for? How are they used? ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/9 "2002-08-08T21:54:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Um…what are the codes for? To launch missiles, silly. No, really, if you want a lj code, email [opalcat@fathom.org](mailto:opalcat@fathom.org). She may be able to help you get a code. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/10 "2002-08-08T21:59:27Z")
Of course, 'splain who you are and why you are asking. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/11 "2002-08-08T21:59:40Z")
I don’t necessarily want a code, I want to know why other people want codes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/12 "2002-08-08T22:17:02Z")
LiveJournal is a service where you can have an online journal. Unfortunately there were too many people creating accounts, not using them at all and leaving them, or creating one just to flame someone else in comments (you can comment on people’s entries), and the servers were overloaded with them. So now if you want an account at LiveJournal, you need to have a code (the letters/numbers that were posted by **Sapphire Bullet** ). People who have a free account at LJ have one code to give; people who have paid accounts have more. The fact you have to actively find a code (by asking someone already on LJ) discourages people who would just create an account and never use it. I have a couple hanging around, and **Rhiannon1031** can have one of them, like I said. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/13 "2002-08-08T22:33:22Z")
Thank you for the info - I already had a LJ (from 2001) and thus was baffled as I had never heard of this. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/14 "2002-08-08T22:56:05Z")
To whoever used the code that **Sapphire Bullet** posted: You’re not very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/15 "2002-08-08T23:55:07Z")
Poor **aliceunchained**. Doesn’t have any friends of his/her own to ask. Had you just emailed me I might have given you a code of your own. Evidently, I shouldn’t have trusted the general public as I did. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/16 "2002-08-11T04:27:30Z")
If you look on your \Invite a Friend\ screen, \Sapphire Bullet\, you can see who’s used any code you generated. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/17 "2002-08-11T04:32:52Z")
Nnnnrg! Gotten too used to using LiveJournal, where HTML actually works. Ah, irony… ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/18 "2002-08-11T04:56:33Z")
> [@](#): > > If you look on your _Invite a Friend_ screen, **Sapphire Bullet** , you can see who’s used any code you generated. I think that’s where he came up with **aliceunchained**. ---
**Author:** ![clevername](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clevername](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clevername)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/19 "2002-08-11T07:43:47Z")
Incidentally, I have one code left, if anyone wants one, just email me and put something abuot livejournal in the subject line so I don’t delete it with the spam. I’m at [e@ohlin.net](mailto:e@ohlin.net) ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996/20 "2002-08-11T15:41:33Z")
I have tons of unused codes if anyone wants one. Two years of a paid subscription, and most of my friends signed up when it was free. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/livejournal-help/122996.md?page=2)