No comments from new journals

[arbat]

Title
No comments from new journals

Short, concise description of the idea
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

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

I think "journals that were banned by more then 20 people" is an interesting idea, but it would be too easy to abuse. A group of trolls (or one person with several accounts) could gang up on a person and ban him from their journals, thus preventing him from posting in journals that have this option turned on. Of course, most people comment in their friends' journals, which wouldn't be affected, but it could prevent a person from participating in community discussions.

[azurelunatic]

User-only feature?

[boredinsomniac]

Sure, why not?

[arbat]

This can be limited to "banned by 20 friends of mine".

[splitcomplex]

What about users that have fewer than 20 friends?

[arbat]

Well, I guess said user will have to indicate fewer friends when using the feature.

[azurelunatic]

So, users banned by a number of friends that the user can specify.

All this debate may look useless, but it serves to refine the idea so that if LiveJournal decides it's a good idea, the developers will be able to make it so it works well.

[arbat]

I sort of assumed that the number will not be fixed, - simply because there is no reason to make it a Universal Constant.

[azurelunatic]

This is not a safe assumption to make in the presence of developers. :D

[arbat]

It is easier for me to imagine a developer who provides a way to override the default value for Pi, than one who fixes the number of "friends" :-)

[azurelunatic]

I take your point!