Pretty much all the 'issues' I have have already been mentioned by various users, but I'll highlight what I agree with, for the sake of upping the numbers
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YES to the spam - thanks to this thread, I just discovered legitimate messages I received over a year ago but LJ had flagged as spam. I see no obvious reason why they would have been flagged and diverted to that folder, and that's three people who thought I was ignoring them.
And, on topic.. it's just aggrivating. There's one specific post I have made myself check fairly regularly, because that's the one I've noticed it happens on, most often. We had to edit the contact post to tell folks to PM us if they didn't hear from us within a day. Most often, it's because their comment was tagged.
I've been dealing with spam in my inbox for YEARS, between yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. Spam from LJ is at least spam I'd like to get.
Having legitimate comments being marked as spam is bad form, and there's got to be some way to adjust the filters on LJs end.
I 1,000% agree with this. Every time I comment in a friending meme and I try to post a gif (granted, this might be because I typically use tinypic to upload the gif), the comment gets marked as spam even though it's not, and then I have to repost the comment and usually just take the gif out. It would be nice if tinypic could be on an acceptable filter so that it doesn't get marked as spam in comments, since it doesn't get marked as spam when I use it to post a gif in an entry.
It is. And I mean, it's not like I participate in friending memes that often, but now I typically just don't even bother posting a gif because I don't feel like having to deal with the fact that it's going to tell me that the comment has been marked as spam. Although I can't entirely tell/remember if it's ALL friending memes, or if it's something with a setting that's specific to the community/journal that's hosting the meme. It might just be a mix of both.
What I find funny is that there was once a time when we were getting those stupid actual spam comments from Russian bots and the like (like, within the last four years) and it took LJ forever to actually put a stop to that (I don't remember exactly what made that finally end), but legitimate comments from you or I or whoever were, and still are, being marked as spam for whatever reasons. I used to get so pissed off when I'd get comments in entries I made years ago in a community and it would just be some stupid bot. Even worse than that is when they would try to 'friend' my
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Oh, the memories that just came flooding back LOL probably the most active LJ had been, by the comments, since 2010 LOL
Also: YES. I'd LOVE to be able to remove the journals I'm not friended to. I used to use that list to find friends I didn't realize I wasn't friend with. Now, I've got 50 names I don't recognize, and twice as many comms I left six years ago.
Hahaha, right? You know you're old when you can remember the days of Ye Old Spam Bots on Livejournal.
It's been a while since I've gone through my friends list to see how many communities I need to leave and how many people I need to unfriend, but I've been thinking about it. And you know, the fact that once you unfriend someone, they can (I think) still see your entries that are friends only is a little concerning. i.e. I unfriended someone quite a while ago, but they still list me as a friend. I can go to her journal and scroll down past some of her public entries and read her friends only entries. I don't know if it's because of a filter that she has set up, or what, but because I unfriended her I shouldn't be able to see her entries, but because she didn't unfriend me back, I can see her entries. I have to specifically go to her journal in order to see, but I can see them.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. I just wish it was set up more like Facebook- once you unfriend someone, that's it. They don't see your entries unless they're public, you don't see their entries unless they're public. If I unfriend someone, it means I don't want any further affiliation with them beyond mutual friends and communities or whatever.
Re: the spam thing, I agree with the suggestion to notify that some comments have been identified as spam. To actually prevent those notifs being as spammy as the actual spam, it could be perhaps something that is sent only once per day if things have been identified as spam.
So if you get a suspicious comment in three different comms in a day, at midnight you're sent a notif "You've received some comments considered to be suspicious, review them over here" -- multiple spam comments, but only one daily notif about it.
I am so not the person to know the details of how subscriptions get defined (in the what is or is not possible sense), but I will mark down that there should be two new subscriptions if possible: one to notify you of spam comments on the posts you personally make, and the other to notify you of spam comments in any comms you maintain/moderate/own.
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And, on topic.. it's just aggrivating. There's one specific post I have made myself check fairly regularly, because that's the one I've noticed it happens on, most often. We had to edit the contact post to tell folks to PM us if they didn't hear from us within a day. Most often, it's because their comment was tagged.
I've been dealing with spam in my inbox for YEARS, between yahoo, hotmail, and gmail. Spam from LJ is at least spam I'd like to get.
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I 1,000% agree with this. Every time I comment in a friending meme and I try to post a gif (granted, this might be because I typically use tinypic to upload the gif), the comment gets marked as spam even though it's not, and then I have to repost the comment and usually just take the gif out. It would be nice if tinypic could be on an acceptable filter so that it doesn't get marked as spam in comments, since it doesn't get marked as spam when I use it to post a gif in an entry.
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The majority of our spam comments are simply folks commenting with an interest to join the community.
We figured that was spam filtering enough. Silly us.
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What I find funny is that there was once a time when we were getting those stupid actual spam comments from Russian bots and the like (like, within the last four years) and it took LJ forever to actually put a stop to that (I don't remember exactly what made that finally end), but legitimate comments from you or I or whoever were, and still are, being marked as spam for whatever reasons. I used to get so pissed off when I'd get comments in entries I made years ago in a community and it would just be some stupid bot. Even worse than that is when they would try to 'friend' my ( ... )
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Oh, the memories that just came flooding back LOL probably the most active LJ had been, by the comments, since 2010 LOL
Also: YES. I'd LOVE to be able to remove the journals I'm not friended to. I used to use that list to find friends I didn't realize I wasn't friend with. Now, I've got 50 names I don't recognize, and twice as many comms I left six years ago.
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It's been a while since I've gone through my friends list to see how many communities I need to leave and how many people I need to unfriend, but I've been thinking about it. And you know, the fact that once you unfriend someone, they can (I think) still see your entries that are friends only is a little concerning. i.e. I unfriended someone quite a while ago, but they still list me as a friend. I can go to her journal and scroll down past some of her public entries and read her friends only entries. I don't know if it's because of a filter that she has set up, or what, but because I unfriended her I shouldn't be able to see her entries, but because she didn't unfriend me back, I can see her entries. I have to specifically go to her journal in order to see, but I can see them.
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That person has you friended: therefore you can see friends-only entries on her journal.
You do not have that person friended: therefore that person cannot see friends-only entries on your journal.
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So if you get a suspicious comment in three different comms in a day, at midnight you're sent a notif "You've received some comments considered to be suspicious, review them over here" -- multiple spam comments, but only one daily notif about it.
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Would there be a way to have those go to mods and maintainers? Or would it be based on the user who made the post?
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Thanks for making the note!!
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