It's definitely another step into that direction, but it's not really surprising. I mean, when Strikethrough happened, I thought it was pretty clear where this was heading. Nothing that's happened since then has discouraged me in that assumption - quite the opposite, actually. It's sort of disappointing, but not really unexpected.

LJ will probably end up just like ff.net, banning adult fanfic and fanart and being flooded by badfic writing teenagers. Until that happens, I'll hang around, because I like the fannish community we have here.