[mod post] Regarding the recent journal suspensions

May 04, 2017 18:17

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yuidirnt May 7 2017, 23:35:34 UTC
Hah! I had renewed my paid account not long before the new TOS appeared, and when that happened, LJ gave all paid accounts an extra 6 months (guess they did figure out people would be running far far away from the site). I now have a paid account until August 2018 and no desire to use it at all...

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suspended smartiemasaki May 10 2017, 07:26:44 UTC
Hi, i had the same probleme with Lj they have suspended me the reason because of spam if they would follow me on fb they would know what spam is :D, i write the support on lj and they activated my account again. I have to admit that they have responded very quickly after I had written to them an email why I was suspended. Lucky i have not even know that i have already an account on DW, i have to forget it already :) oh after i transfered some files from lj to dw i got susbended. Shit just as I have already understood something, I must now also deal with DW I am too old for a new one both pages are complicated.

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RE: suspended yuidirnt May 10 2017, 07:29:35 UTC
if they would follow me on fb they would know what spam is

"spam" does not mean "posting a lot," but "posting links to dangerous sites." If you got suspended on DW, too, maybe you really had somewhere in your journal a link leading to a website that had a virus. (You can easily contact DW support and clear it up.)

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Re: suspended smartiemasaki May 10 2017, 07:35:17 UTC
on dw im not suspended, i was on lj but i post not any dangerous links not that i know it or do you mean the homepage from Johnny's and j-storm are dangerous :D and it has also cleared everything as I said the support of lj is fast.

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i_am_zan May 28 2017, 22:55:55 UTC
Here via friend of friend of friend ... thank you for informing me ... another nail in lj's coffins ... Thank you for sharing.

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i_am_zan May 28 2017, 23:09:02 UTC
Oh and one more question if I may ... you were saying about outside links up there ... what happens to mirrored posts say on DW ...

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yuidirnt May 28 2017, 23:10:46 UTC
Do you mean links on a LJ entry to its mirrored version on DW? Those are still external links, and as far as we know at the moment, could still get your account deleted.

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i_am_zan May 28 2017, 23:15:56 UTC
Yeah thanks for the quick reply ... yeah that was what I meant ..

By the way ... so sorry ... if this comm is over on DW by the way may I join ... (I can't believe I haven't joined before this - I fail as a fan ahahaha. Children and a hubby can distract one from fandom sometimes) ...

And also is there a link where I might be able to find out more about this ... and let other people know?

Because this seems to have snuck up on us and I only found out about it this morning and if they are deleting posts/journals with even mirrors on DW I think my friends will need to know -

On and thanks so very much in advance.

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May I boost this? fiorenza_a May 29 2017, 12:04:35 UTC

I'm not part of your comm, but an Lj friend linked to this and I think my fandom comms should be aware. I regularly link off site in my own journal, so I'm presuming whatever 'bot crawler' they're using would pick up my journal eventually.

People regularly link off-site when posting to the fandom comms too, to various other media and fan resources.

I can't tell if this is a bot gone rogue (I'm aware they've had problems in the past, deleting abuse survivor community journals when looking for 'explicit content' for example) - or whether they have changed the T&C and are about to publish a 'white-list' like FanFiction.net.

FF's white-list is horrendously restrictive - it would be a real blow if Lj go down that route.

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RE: May I boost this? yuidirnt May 29 2017, 13:22:37 UTC
Feel free to link this entry anywhere and to whoever you wish :)

People who contacted LJ support after getting their accounts suspended either had it reinstated after a while with just a vague "we thought you were a bot" reply or didn't get any reply at all and their account remains lost. So far it seems to be random who manages to regain their account and who doesn't.

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RE: May I boost this? fiorenza_a May 29 2017, 13:56:09 UTC

Thank you, I'll pass that on :0)

#offsitelinks

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milady_dragon May 29 2017, 14:37:28 UTC
HI!

I'm not in your fandom, but got linked here through a comm I lurk on. If it's fine with you, I'd like to link this to my own comms. Everyone needs to know what's going on in case it happens to them.

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yuidirnt May 29 2017, 15:04:59 UTC
Sure, feel free to!

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milady_dragon May 29 2017, 15:07:01 UTC
Thanks! :)

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