New LJ "Spam protection" -- turn it OFF if you maintain a community

[ron_newman]

Sometime earlier this month, LiveJournal introduced a "Spam Protection" feature which screens comments made to any community or personal journal. LJ turned this on by default for all communities without any notice to community maintainers. LJ belatedly and incompletely described the new feature in this news announcement, several days or weeks

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[darkhavens]

I've just gone through all of my comms, searching for 'spam protected' comments and I found some, but it wasn't easy.

The screened comments were in a comm that has a custom layout which is also used for the comments page. To see this new "Read N suspicious comments" link, I had to look at each page with ?format=light appended to the url.

Thanks, lj. I really had nothing better to do with those two hours... :(

[ron_newman]

What was the earliest posting date where you found these?

[darkhavens]

15th April.

[darkhavens]

Also, a friend stumbled over a link to the whitelist page, which, oddly enough, didn't show up for me.

She found it on the Community Settings page, just under the last radio button text in the bottom righthand box, but when I look at that page, there is no link.

Here is the link:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/whitelist.bml?authas=COMM-NAME-HERE

[ron_newman]

Over in news, they say that this list applies only to posts in moderated communities, not to comments at all.

[darkhavens]

Yeesh. Thanks.

I wish they'd get their act together and keep news posts about news. And maybe edit posts to contain relevant information (that the poster didn't have the brains or foresight to include) once it's been mentioned in comments (between all the Frank and Meme guff).

*tears out hair*