Read-Only Mode

[mcgillianaire]

Some time on Friday afternoon, my Livejournal account was placed in read-only mode which meant I couldn't create, modify entries or leave comments. I didn't receive any warning or notification. I filed a suspension inquiry and within a few hours received the following response:

"Thank you for your inquiry. Your account was placed in readonly mode

Comments

[jhall1]

It hasn't ever happened to me, and I don't recall it having happened to anyone else on my flist. Maybe it's the high number of links that your twitter feed includes that triggered it. I suppose spam accounts would also tend to have a lot of links, in their case to the sites that they are trying to advertise. (Though I would have thought that the chance of anybody stumbling on and going on to read posts on such an account must be tiny.)

[mcgillianaire]

Thanks for your reply John! Good point about the links - I didn't think about that, or make the connection with the twitter feed. That's the most plausible reason so far. I recently switched my settings so that my twitter feed entries are public rather than friends-only. I concluded that was why it hadn't been flagged earlier. Or perhaps their system is new. I guess I don't mind it happening as long as they respond in a timely fashion like they did on Friday.

[imagnocean]

This. The links to Twitter would've been my guess.

[mcgillianaire]

Gotcha, thanks!

[mrputter]

I haven’t noticed anything... but then, I also haven’t tried to post anything to LJ in over a week.

So I s’pose that if this comment goes through, that will answer that question...

[mcgillianaire]

Heh. Thanks for letting me know! So far I've heard of it happening to one other person on someone else's friends-list, so it seems (only?) two out of six have been affected thus far.

[brinker]

Hasn't happened to me.

[mcgillianaire]

Thanks for letting me know! Hope you've been well. :-)

[brinker]

I've been good. Afghanistan.... hasn't been doing so well. They've closed the university a week early, which is nice for the vacation... not so good for the country.

[mcgillianaire]

Oh that's too bad they've closed the uni early...though if contributes to a longer vacation, or an earlier one than expected, that's not a bad alternative! Glad you're well. :-)