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No comments from new journals
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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
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Why? I mean - those features will not be harder to implement than the others. And, if you do not want to use them - you do not need to.
On the other hand, they may be quite useful, - I have been on quite a few occasions spammed by bots that were already banned by many of my friends, - that could have been prevented with any of those features.
The first 10, or 20, or 30 targets will ban a bot, - and make it easy for the rest of us.
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People get banned for all sorts of reasons, including having unpopular opinions. If I've turned on "no comments from users banned by X people", my friends might suddenly lose the ability to comment to me, if they post something controversial. But if a lot of my friends ban someone, I'm much more likely to agree that that person needs to be banned.
Also, as I said, I'd be much happier with screening comments from $criteria-X; a spammer or someone posting offensive comments wants attention. If they don't even get seen by the public, in my experience they just vanish.
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You can make them your "friends" and override the block. In any case, I am not saying - "let's turn it on for everyone by default!" If you do not want the feature - you need not use it :-)
"People get banned for all sorts of reasons, including having unpopular opinions"
True. I trust my friends though.
In any case, - what if I want to ban the unpopular opinion? Why deprive me of the possibility? Ok, I am an ass who wants only popular slogans and bumpers stickers! Fine. Why not let me be one?
Over and over you argue along the lines of "I do not want to use those features". This is fine. But this is a reason of why you should not use them - not why they should not exist.
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If something like this is implemented, an obvious amendment would be "block new users from commenting [more than once per day] unless I have added them as a friend" because I certainly hope no-one will add a spammer as a friend (or keep a spammer as a friend, if one manages to fool someone for a short time).
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Now, while you are off in your office - an idiot like this can easily flood your journal with comments just in spite. Proposed measure will make it impossible.
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Cleaning up from someone who does such a thing can be made easier now by reporting him for ban evasion. A suspended user's comments disappear.
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How about ban for new journals from a given IP, or an IP range?
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If I thought that LJ has some purpose that spam-blocking defeats, I would've immediately closed my account.
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