Important Modly Announcement

[star54kar.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. I know it's been quite some time since I've last made a post here, but this is your friendly neighborhood moderator, star54kar.

As some of you may or may not have noticed, over the course of the past few months this community has frequently come under the attack of Spammers posting links to various advertisements. While I have been faithfully banning the poster and deleting and reporting each occurrence as spam to Livejournal as soon as I became aware of each inappropriate post, I have found that over the past few weeks this is doing nothing to dissuade those responsible from setting up new accounts and posting the exact same thing all over again.

Because the frequency of these spam attacks appear to be getting consistently worse, despite my prompt action in each occurrence, I have made the decision to put this community on moderated membership status in an attempt to protect the community from these repeated attacks.

This action has been taken in the hope of making our community less attractive to those responsible for the spam attacks, with as little inconvenience to our posting members as possible. It is my hope that this will not have to be a permanent change, but I'm going to try this for a while and see how things go.

If any of you have any questions about this change please feel free to ask away. I'll be happy to answer them and I promise to make you aware of any further changes if they occur.

Sincerely,
star54kar

Comments

[conuly]

Is that moderated posting or moderated membership?

[star54kar.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your question. For now, unless the problem persists, it's just moderated membership and I have adjusted the post above to make that more clear. I'm just trying to make the community less attractive to those responsible for the spam attacks, with as little inconvenience to our posting members as possible.