I'm starting to need a "Oh, FFS, Livejournal" icon

[sholio]

The other day I noticed that some of the comments to my post asking for Highlander recs had been shunted off into a special section on the post labeled "spam". The comments did not display on the post (to me or anyone else); you had to use this other link to see them. They didn't have any of the usual Livejournal buttons (to reply, delete, unscreen, link, etc). Eventually, after much annoyance, I figured out that there's a little circle-with-a-line-through-it button that causes them to be "unspammed" and become normal comments again.

Apparently this is a new feature where comments containing links to "non-whitelisted" sites (so, say, just about any list of links to fanfic and vids and stuff) will be marked spam and hidden from EVERYONE, including you, unless you turn it off.

Here's the news post explaining the new feature. To turn it off, go to your privacy settings page and find the checkbox (it's right under comment screening) that says "Comments containing a link to a non-whitelisted domain will be marked as spam and moved to a special section." And uncheck it.

(Or, if you've been having a lot of problems with spam and this is useful to you, then you could leave it on! I just found it confusing and annoying myself.)

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

My media references posts to fanthropology have gotten a half-dozen spam posts that have been caught this way; since I get email notifications about all comments, it's been straight-forward to deal with (don't remember how, just that it's always been obvious what's happened and what to do).

So I like the feature; but nothing that I don't want screened has ever been screened.

[sholio]

Makes sense! I'm glad it works for you.