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It's our usual policy to try to not post Yet Another Inappropriate Ad posts, as previous discussion indicated them to be not very informative. However, the recent ad campaign by Scientology has generated a decent amount of flare up unusual to most ads considered objectionable; we have spotted support requests, been notified by multiple members ( Read more... )

The company I work for provides a blog for its franchisees to use in order to promote events in their areas, hold contests, and whatnot. There has been a lot of buzz on our internal forum about social networking and how to use it to promote a business, how to market to people, et cetera. One of the items to come out of all this talk is a PDF ( Read more... )

This isn't directly related to LJ, but I thought people here would find it interesting anyway.

You may remember that some time ago LiveJournal had problems with ads that installed ErrorSafe/Winfixer. The problem was that due to some sneaky coding in one particular banner ad, it managed to sneak past LJ's ad guidelines and make it live to the site ( Read more... )

A support request from 02/08, answered 02/10, anonymized.

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The amp'd mobile branding can now be seen on the front page for the feature promotions on the front page for nonpaid and logged out users.

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Plus users using Horizon are going to have a spot of issues with their menus on pages getting covered up with leaderboard Flash ads (screenshot). Pages having leaderboard spots include:
My LJ
Journal Display
Tags Management
Edit Profile
Memorable Entries
Interests
Schools Directory

Frank gets half covered by a box ad, too, but he's less needed for ( Read more... )

Lately there's been a spate of Support complaints about site CSS not loading, or the site looking plain or not having any styling, which is a result of the CSS not loading.

This is because AdBlock or other ad blocking software is blocking the CSS's URL because it contains the text "ad_base.css". (Kind of like how every now and again someone can ( Read more... )

I haven't seen this posted about anywhere, so at the risk of repeating somebody else, I figure I should probably post about this.

Did you know that if LiveJournal had stuck to their ad policy, none of the ErrorSafe incident would have ever happened?

Here's an excerpt from the relevant FAQ:
What are LiveJournal's guidelines on acceptable ads? ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon this tonight while signed into one of my test journals. The following screencaps were taken at 1024x768 in Firefox 1.0.7.

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