[links] Link salad says, "Son can you play me a memory, I’m not really sure how it goes.”

[jaylake]

Never mind. LiveJournal is giving me the world's most useless error message today:

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[agent_mimi]

I wasn't sure if your blog took HTML in comments so I'm posting here, I hope that's okay.

People are lately reporting the same error here and here, and it appears to be a spam filter snafu. Which is odd because none of your link salad links look bad. I did find this support ticket saying links to gather.com are banned... wonder what could possibly be banned in your list of links?

Edited because I hit post too soon.

[jaylake]

Thanks. That helps me understand both the problem and the atupidity behind it.

The problem with the Secret Spam List™ is that when I am composing Link Salad, with scores of possible sources, how the heck do I know something is spam?

This makes LJ unusable for me.

[asakiyume]

Spam, and the responses to spam, are really choking online communications overall. I am afraid to put links in email because I don't want the email marked as spam; many sites won't let you post links at all (okay, maybe not many--but on Tumblr, you can't send messages with links, for example). And then there are the methods of combatting spam, all of which bottleneck communication. Grrrr.

[asakiyume]

Oh, I blame the spammers, not the moderators.