Keep an eye out for Basic accounts created as Plus

[foxfirefey]

Keep your eyes and ears peeled--the past month has brought enough reports of new Basic account creations ending up as Plus that it's very possible there is a bug somewhere in the process. This isn't anything sinister or shady--LiveJournal does test this kind of stuff and account creation is currently passing the tests--but it seems like there are

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[rorted]

I notice that the default level when creating an account is Plus. Which is to say, once a user enters his/her vitals here, they are prompted on the next page whether they want a Basic/Plus/Paid account. By the time the user gets to this second page, their account has already been created as a Plus account (or at least that's what happened for me on 2/2 attempts) and if they don't select an account type when prompted (and instead close the browser window or navigate elsewhere) it will remain that way.

I wonder how many of these reports could be as a result of people not choosing an account type, or attempting to choose one but being foobared due to network issues/other reasons?

Possible solution?

[ex_uniquewo]

http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/5342418.html