There is an easy way to report spam bots posting or commenting in a community or journal you do not maintain. Go here ( Read more... )

Every time I log into LJ and check my settings, something has been fucked with. This time it was mandatory display of "most recent vgifts" in my profile. The most recent, by the way, was from 2006. The only way to prevent them from showing up in my profile was to delete each one individually. (Note: I disabled vgifts three years ago ( Read more... )

Have you noticed the new tab called "My Ads" in LiveJournal account settings? (Link will work only for logged in Livejournal users).

In an attempt to increase profit by boosting paid membership, Livejournal announced a new Google AdSense program called Your Journal - Your Money five months ago ( Read more... )

I think LiveJournal went from crappy to unbearable a long time ago.

But lately it has been downright evil, with ads containing malware, and rage-making changes to gender options.

Because I do not believe LJ can be repaired, my only logical option is to remove content, moving my fanfiction to AO3. I'm committing to moving at least one story or ( Read more... )

After reading the responses to a friend's post on sponsored accounts, I decided it was time to point something out.

SUP said from the get-go it acquired LiveJournal for international expansion. The American chunk of LiveJournal is not important to SUP's long range plans.

LiveJournal USA, since its humble beginnings (as Jason Shellen used to say ( Read more... )

I cannot create a poll any more, so please use comments. No need to answer all three; just the ones you can. Recent comments is your friend.

1. When did you notice "guys" return to top interests, ahead of the other filtered interests? Please include the date and your local timezone (don't convert to another timezone). Include AM or PM. Example: ( Read more... )

For background, see my lj: censorship tag.

For late arrivals, here's a timeline for the event I'm going to call "LiveJournal Is My Happy Place!" Please excuse the American date format.

2/28/2008: A cached top interests page shows the original filter is still in place.
3/06/2008: Date the interest filter was modified.
3/15/2008: Reading an old ( Read more... )

Folks, "guys" has mysteriously returned to LiveJournal's most popular interests page.

This takes a huge load off my mind. It never really belonged to the group of interests blocked from most popular interests ( Read more... )

Using the wayback machine, I was able to compare Livejournal popular interests from May, 2007, with those of today. In order of size, these are the interests SUP has disappeared from the daily popular interests report ( Read more... )

shaggirl was looking at my ancient post on the Bloglines fiasco, where I have a link to LiveJournal's most popular interests page.

She noticed "porn" and "fanfiction" were no longer appearing as top interests, which she found odd, and left me a comment: Could that many people have deleted those interests as a result of the fall-out [...] or has LJ ( Read more... )