TUTORIAL: How to Lock Out Further Comments to an Entry
Is one of your entries to daniel_vala getting comment-spammed by anonymous users with garbage-y links to mediocre porn and illicit vending of prescription drugs?
OPTIONS:
How to Lock Out Further Comments to an Entry (only the original poster can perform this action; community admin cannot)
A workaround to continue to receive feedback for your fanwork would be to post your work to a public entry on your own LJ, and make a link in the spambot-targeted entry to direct real people to it.
Another workaround would be to Member-lock the entry, making the post viewable only to members of daniel_vala and thereby disallowing anonymous comments:
source: LiveJournal Major Notes: Global navigation, Mobile, Bug fixes 16 March 2010 news
OPTIONS:
- Manually continue to delete each comment spam every time you receive one >_<
- OR Delete the entire entry & its comments (even the nice feedback left for your fanwork) D:
- OR Delete all comments and freeze the entry :(
- OR Lock the entry to future comments :S
- EDITED TO ADD: Or Member-lock the entry :\
How to Lock Out Further Comments to an Entry (only the original poster can perform this action; community admin cannot)
- Click the Edit icon (looks like a pencil)
- At the bottom, click the "Allow Comments?" drop-down menu
- Choose "Locked"
- Click "Save Entry" button
A workaround to continue to receive feedback for your fanwork would be to post your work to a public entry on your own LJ, and make a link in the spambot-targeted entry to direct real people to it.
Another workaround would be to Member-lock the entry, making the post viewable only to members of daniel_vala and thereby disallowing anonymous comments:
source: LiveJournal Major Notes: Global navigation, Mobile, Bug fixes 16 March 2010 news