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No comments from new journals
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I want to block new journals from commenting in mine.
Full description of the ideaOn many occasions people create empty journals just for spam. This way, when that one-time-empty-journal is banned, they can create another
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If something like this is implemented, an obvious amendment would be "block new users from commenting [more than once per day] unless I have added them as a friend" because I certainly hope no-one will add a spammer as a friend (or keep a spammer as a friend, if one manages to fool someone for a short time).
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Now, while you are off in your office - an idiot like this can easily flood your journal with comments just in spite. Proposed measure will make it impossible.
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Cleaning up from someone who does such a thing can be made easier now by reporting him for ban evasion. A suspended user's comments disappear.
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How about ban for new journals from a given IP, or an IP range?
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One of the factors that goes into considering whether to develop a feature is whether it is usable by a broad range of people, rather than just a few.
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However, there is a feature that allows me to log and see the IPs of those who leave comments in my journal. I assume that if this feature was provided it means that sufficient number of people who know what an IP is.
I have used IPs on few occasion to identify spammers who used multiple "sock puppet" accounts to post messages to my journal. My proposal is just an automation of something I have been doing manually.
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-- Why can none of my friends at the same university comment to my journal? They are complaining they get messages that I banned IP XXX.XX... Oh... wait...
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