New LJ "Spam protection" -- turn it OFF if you maintain a community

[ron_newman]

Sometime earlier this month, LiveJournal introduced a "Spam Protection" feature which screens comments made to any community or personal journal. LJ turned this on by default for all communities without any notice to community maintainers. LJ belatedly and incompletely described the new feature in this news announcement, several days or weeks

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[teal_cuttlefish]

Thanks! I grabbed your text verbatim and reposted with credit to spread the word.

[ron_newman]

Thanks for amplifying the signal. This needs to get out widely, but I don't know of any community where "community maintainers" especially hang out. I'd love to post this to paidmembers but I don't have posting access there. Please post it there if you do.

[teal_cuttlefish]

Nope, I think only staff can post. You could try to drop the community maintainers a note with a link to this post -- I don't know if they would be willing to post it or not.

[ron_newman]

OK, I just sent such a message to marta and astronewt who are listed as the maintainers there.

[londonesque]

Thank you for the heads-up about this.

Happy birthday to <lj user="cindergal"> and for the 26th to <lj user="fishsanwitt">

[pingback_bot]

User cordykitten referenced to your post from Happy birthday to cindergal and for the 26th to fishsanwitt saying: [...] 29: + ; 30: + FYI (from Permmembers here [...]

Comment blocking? In MY journal?

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User schnee referenced to your post from Comment blocking? In MY journal? saying: [...] exist, and aren't planned. This is bad enough, but for communities, it gets worse. As points out [...]

[grammarianpuck]

this is really good