Suspicious and Spam Comments

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

I don't hate this feature. I mean I don't love that they always turn everything on when the start it and they need to improve it but I'm so happy to not get the disgusting and annoying spams anymore. Still here is some information on the spam filter.

Originally posted by heeroluva at "Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam is a big FAIL!

So I've been noticing in both my own journal and communities that I haven't been able to see some comments even thought it says there are more comments there than are actually showing up. Instead I'm getting a place holder that says (Spam comment) or (Suspicious comment).

Why are these showing up like this you may ask? In their rush to fight spam LJ has created a new filter that're AUTOMATICALLY TURNED ON in ALL journals and communities, which screens comments that are made with 'suspicious links' ie links that are not on their safe whitelist, so pretty much the majority of the internet. There is no noted way to add to the 'whitelist'.

What really gets me is that they didn't inform people that they were doing this until a week after it was done and that it was automatically turned on.

So how do I turn it off you might ask.

That's simple. Go to your Settings, click on the Privacy tab, and half way down where it says Spam Protection uncheck the box next to "Comments containing a link to a non-whitelisted domain will be marked as spam and moved to a special section." This applies to both personal journal and communities and the opinion has to be manually changed in each one.

While I understand how this could be a good idea, I think they went about it in a very backhanded way, and have implemented it poorly. There was no message to anyone that the link has been screened. It's automatically done. This went on for over a week before they said anything about it. There is still nothing in the FAQs about it even. The only way I found out about this way going through the support pages where people were reporting similar issues.

Please share this!

 

ETA: This links really illustrates the problems.

Comments

[meekosan.livejournal.com]

Sure :) I forgot who made it but you can check my userpic page to find out who to credit. I think it was be_lanna but I'm not sure.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

Thanks. How did I miss that icon. It is be_lanna handy work. I love her icons. Thanks so much.

[meekosan.livejournal.com]

She does do great work! I'm so glad that her site is also back up because I caught some there that I missed on her LJ posts. All my STV icons are by her because I just fail at making any Trek icons. I dunno why.

SGA and NCIS no problem, or even stock but all the ones i ever made of Trek were trash.

[sireesanwar.livejournal.com]

She really does. I didn't know it was down but I'm glad she's up again. Maybe that mean more ST icons in our future.

I suck at the ST ones too. I don't get it.