Admin Notice: Screened Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

 Recently LJ turned on a new feature that marks comments with links to non-white listed websites as spam  and screens them. This is due  in part to their attempts to deal with LJ being the source of spam messages and being put on the Spam Watchlist.   Unfortunately, LJ didn't notify community owners or journal owners that this feature was  turned on by default  a while back.  The other problem is that the journal owners and community moderators receive no notification that a comment has been screened as spam. And there is no easy way for owners to find the 'marked as spam' comments.

Examples of non-white listed websites: well pretty much any place that isn't large or commercial.  If you link to AO3, fan websites, vidding sites etc your comment will be marked as spam.

We've turned off this feature but  the only way for a moderator to find a "screened as spam" comment is for the original poster to let us know.  I went back  one week and did a manual post by post search and unscreened a few comments from community members that had been marked as spam. If you were told your comments were being screened, please provide us with a link to the post and we'll check it out. Ditto if this happens moving forward.

More info on the new feature is here: http://news.livejournal.com/137436.html

Comments

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Well on this community all anonymous comments are screened - with or without links. I've turned off the 'screen all comments with non-WL links as spam' option on this community.

[(Anonymous)]

Well on this community all anonymous comments are screened - with or without links. They've turned off the 'screen all comments with non-WL links as spam' option on this community.

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

How very, very annoying. :( Thanks for making an announcement!