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

[fitzwiggity.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky, I generally don't have a lot of problems w/spam and the like. Though, granted, I usually do get dumped [from internet, you know?] and that's more than just a bit annoying when that happens because you can't exactly just bring it back up, you have to wait for the internet to connect again.

Sorry about the spamatic issues. On a totally off-hand subject, do you remember that wordcount tracker program thing? It's a little yellow bar that keeps tracks of one stories and such and how much more they have before finishing. I can't remember for the life of me what that thing is called and where I can find it.

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I'm lucky, I generally don't have a lot of problems w/spam and the like. Though, granted, I usually do get dumped [from internet, you know?] and that's more than just a bit annoying when that happens because you can't exactly just bring it back up, you have to wait for the internet to connect again.

Sorry about the spamatic issues. On a totally off-hand subject, do you remember that wordcount tracker program thing? It's a little yellow bar that keeps tracks of one stories and such and how much more they have before finishing. I can't remember for the life of me what that thing is called and where I can find it. <Grr....>

Btw, the only Highlander I ever saw was the movie, and I quite liked them, I haven't been able to see the television series because I don't have the money to afford the seasons-is the television show as good as the movies? Or better?

[leesa_perrie]

Noted and switched off. Spam's not normally a problem for me and I'd rather not have the hassle of having to unmark a comment as spam!

Thanks! Off to spread the word!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up! I'm guessing this is a spam-fighting feature to try to prevent something like the great email comments debacle of a month or two ago.

[anniehow.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks! *unchecks immediately* Sharing recs is one of my main forms of fannishness!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Huh, that might explain why two comments in a comm post I was tracking didn't show up in the post itself. That's annoying. Yo, LJ, throwing out the baby with the bathwater again.

[spike21.livejournal.com]

thanks! I would never have noticed that.

[ratcreature]

I was confused by the same thing, because I answered a comment from the email notification link, and then couldn't see the comment I'd already replied to in the post. I left the option on, because I do get quite a lot of spam, even though I screen anon comments already, but they could at least make the unscreening automatic once you replied and save you the extra step. After all people aren't going to respond to spam.

[sheron]

O_O;

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up, though I now dither on whether to deactivate it. It seems the spammers have found me since I've been getting a lot of spam, lately.

[rydra_wong]

*facepalms*

Am I correct in understanding that you don't get comment notifications for any comments shunted into the hidden spam zone?

[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.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Oh, ffs.

[tei-0.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the PSA :)

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this, have adjusted accordingly :)

[liz-mo.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you for the info! 4 days off on vacation in RL and see what happens... ;-)