Membership of the comm is now moderated

[lark_ascends]

Due to all the spam that's been hitting comms lately (and the fact that two of my comms got spammed today) membership of the comm will now be moderated for a while. The only journals I will be rejecting are those that are obviously spam journals.

That is, if you have only just created the journal, have no posts and are members of lots of communities without any friends, I will reject you. If you are a legitimate person, please comment to a mod post to let me know so.

Also, what you as members of comms can do to help when a spammer has hit a comm? Hover your cursor over their username and 'report as bot'. The more reports that LJ gets, probably the faster it will get dealt with.

Comments

annoying spammers

[rose-malmaison.livejournal.com]

I was spammed, too, for the first time. It took me a minute to figure out what it was but the Russian link gave it away! Reported it.

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

My comm hasn't been spammed - because membership is moderated and I'm the only one allowed to post - but I did get a membership request from what I'm thinking must be a bot.
No posts, a relatively new journal, member of +3,000 comms & no friends - I'm thinking spambot.

[lark_ascends]

Oh, yeah, that sounds like a spam bot.

[josgotglock.livejournal.com]

Howdy - I knmow that this post is rather old, but didn't want to break any rules due to "spammers". So, I am going to put in a request to join this community and hope to hear from you soon. :) Thanks much.

Jo

[lark_ascends]

You should be all set now. ;-)