[links] Link salad says, "Son can you play me a memory, I’m not really sure how it goes.”

[jaylake]

Never mind. LiveJournal is giving me the world's most useless error message today:

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[agent_mimi]

I wasn't sure if your blog took HTML in comments so I'm posting here, I hope that's okay.

People are lately reporting the same error here and here, and it appears to be a spam filter snafu. Which is odd because none of your link salad links look bad. I did find this support ticket saying links to gather.com are banned... wonder what could possibly be banned in your list of links?

Edited because I hit post too soon.

[jaylake]

Thanks. That helps me understand both the problem and the atupidity behind it.

The problem with the Secret Spam List™ is that when I am composing Link Salad, with scores of possible sources, how the heck do I know something is spam?

This makes LJ unusable for me.

[asakiyume]

Spam, and the responses to spam, are really choking online communications overall. I am afraid to put links in email because I don't want the email marked as spam; many sites won't let you post links at all (okay, maybe not many--but on Tumblr, you can't send messages with links, for example). And then there are the methods of combatting spam, all of which bottleneck communication. Grrrr.

[agent_mimi]

My post was marked as spam, so let me try again. A support ticket on the issue is here:

http://hojja-nusreddin.livejournal.com/3113018.html

And I found two other journals in the last month having the same problem. It's apparently a spam filter thing, but there was nothing in your link salad that I saw which seemed spammy. Very frustrating.

[burger_eater]

For mirroring Wordpress to LJ, I use the plugin Journalpress. It works pretty well. The only glitch is, if you open a WP post and close it without posting, Journalpress defaults to not mirroring it. So, you just have to glance at the bottom of the page before publishing.

Good luck.

[davidlevine]

I don't know how to convert an existing blog to a feed, but someone has already set up an LJ syndicated account of your RSS feed at feedjaylake. LJ users who want to see your blog feed in their LJ friends list can subscribe to that.

[jaylake]

Yeah. What I really want is to convert my current LJ account to RSS, to minimize reader loss. I'm pretty sure that's impossible.

[davidlevine]

Yeah, I'm not aware of any mechanism to convert an account to a feed.

The next best thing for you would be to automatically mirror your WordPress posts to LJ, but neither of the two plugins I've found to do that (journalpress and ljxp) has been updated in over 2 years, and any plugin would be subject to LJ weirdness as well as weirdness of its own.

My personal blog process uses MarsEdit, a client that knows how to post to both WP and LJ, to post to both sites (not simultaneous or automatic, but pretty easy... I write the post once and click Send to Blog twice). What software do you use for posting?

(Of course, if the issue is that LJ decides to reject a link salad post because of an overactive spam filter, there's probably no software solution to get around that.)

[dr_phil_physics]

Two years ago when LJ screwed up some things with Release 88, I copied my whole LJ, including comments, to Dreamwidth. I compose in Dreamwidth now and let DW crosspost to LJ -- I have a Permanent LJ account and most of my six readers are on LJ. Have had few issues with that.

FWIW.

Dr. Phil

[mmegaera]

I do the same thing. Actually, I have WordPress cross-post to DW, which cross-posts in turn to LJ. Works pretty well so far.

But I had an issue this week with LJ not letting me post a picture of a recently-finished quilt to the quilting comm (as I've done plenty of times before). I don't know what the issue is.