Next Steps

[news]

Hello again.

I want to update you on the status of correcting the issues that occurred earlier this week:

First, all journals and communities that were suspended that did not clearly violate community policies have been restored. Over the weekend and into the next couple of weeks we will be doing the following:

1. 
   We will contact each user whose journal

Comments

[burr86]

It's not "banned", but it is blocked from LJ, at least temporarily -- part of deterring the DDOS we were experiencing included blocking content with that text, because we were getting hit so hard with that exact text that it was killing the site. I don't expect that it'll stay that way for long, but at least short-term, it's the only way we can keep LJ running. :-/

[darth_blade]

What about all the other anti-government organization names and respective communities AND the ru\politics community?

[burr86]

Same thing.

[darth_blade]

Fair enough.
Last question - why did this coincide with the suspension of the ru\nbp community? While I do believe communities like this should not exist, it had always gotten away with the nationalistic and racist crap its members love so much. So why suspend it now?

[burr86]

Same reason. :)

[darth_blade]

I don't understand how suspending a community helps deal with a DDOS attack that contains its name. Explain, please.

[burr86]

I really can't go into detail about this; I'm sorry, but I can't provide much more information than what I've already told you. But please believe me: this isn't an issue of censorship at all, it is just what we have to do in order to make sure that the site remains stable for all other users, and it is hopefully only temporary.

[darth_blade]

Will you be able to explain it after the DDOS attacks have ended? Because right now it does look like an act of censorship. Blocking certain character combinations is understandable, but in that case, suspending communities that said combinations reference seems redundant.

[imaria]

Since I'm not from LJ, I can theorize all I like.

To me, it sounds like the DDOS likely originated from members of that community.

[darth_blade]

Then why go through the trouble of blocking words and suspending several communities instead of deleting the pages in question?

[darth_blade]

And suspending the whole community decreases the load how? Each request still needs to be processed, doesn't it? Again, I understand why they may be cutting the words off at the firewall, but suspending the communities seems like a littele too much.

[darth_blade]

The community had many members, yet not a single one was suspended. The community was, though. DOES NOT COMPUTE.

[darth_blade]

The community is not only unaccessible, it is also suspended, as can be seen in this entry.