The Score

[jjpor]

Just to let all of you know what it is.

About an hour or two ago I received a PM from an online acquaintance on Dreamwidth informing me that they had seen that my Livejournal account and the who_at_50 comm I manage on LJ were both suspended. I was not the only one, apparently - members of my acquaintance's flist were also affected.

True enough, they were suspended - complete with a little graphic of a goat in a pirate hat and eyepatch so that I got the message that whatever their reasons for said suspension they were probably my fault. They didn't add "you scumbag", but they may as well have.

So I fired off a couple of not-particularly-civilly-worded queries to the LJ Abuse team asking them what the blue blazes was going on. In the meantime, acquaintance's flister's LJ was reported to be back up and running. Soon enough, mine was too. It turned out that in the course of adding some new anti-spam measures to LJ, the team there had displayed the competence and efficiency for which they are rightly famous and blitzed a load of people's accounts by accident. Good work, Comrades!

Only problem is, as of right now, while my own journal is back and working, the who_at_50 comm is still down. I have fired off further not particularly civil addendums to the previous query which has not yet been closed, so hopefully this will have the desired effect. If it really is dead and gone (thanks, LJ!), I suppose I will have to start it again from scratch. In the meantime, if you are a member of the comm and have anything you want to post there, if possible please could you do it on the Dreamwidth version here:

http://who-at-50.dreamwidth.org

Anyway, watch this space for further news.

Comments

[evilawyer]

Bad luck = bad service these days.

Of course, it's a weird thing here at DW when I hit the button once and two separate things post as comments, too, so...... (***shrugs***)

[jjpor]

There's a lot of it about, really. But LJ does seem particularly bad for it nowadays. Oh well, at least everything seems to be back up and running for the time being. Small mercies etc. ;)

[swordznsorcery]

Just found this post whilst trying to find out what's going on over at LJ. My account there got suspended, as well as a comm I run. I've got my account back, but the comm's still down. Well done LJ! I'm hoping it will be back to normal come morning. I notice that one of my friends is suspended, and an old fanfic ID I had there is as well. Neither of those latter two accounts has been used in ages, so they're hardly spam candidates.

Honestly, I despair...

[jjpor]

I know how you feel. My comm appears to be back now, for the time being at any rate - is yours okay now too? If not you may need to contact them again - link's here. I had to send them another message before they restored the comm with a lame excuse about their earlier attempt to fix it not being complete or something:

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq/106.html

[swordznsorcery]

Yes, the comm came back this afternoon, thanks. I assume comms get reviewed by a different team than personal LJs, and they take longer to get things sorted. I do wonder if it's having more than one account that set off the spam detector, in which case they must have completely blitzed the role playing societies! What fun.