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[labellementeuse]

So there's been a bunch of trolling lately at greatpoets, including porno, people f*cking with tags, etc etc e-annoying-t-c. This is a cool community and obviously this is ANNOYING and difficult for its rather overworked mods. There was a post earlier today by the chief (and, I think until very recently only) mod who basically requested suggestions for what to do about spamming and erratic tagging. She mentioned a couple of options, one of them being making the community paid and "real" account only. Now, I can see how if you're getting a lot of spam, having approved-only membership would be really useful because it ensures you get way fewer of the casual spammers with, you know, no journal- hence "real" accounts ie accounts that are obviously being genuinely used. I think there's a lot of margin for error here, of course, but it'd be better.

But paid accounts only? I mean, of course most spammers are going to be non-paid account, but there are tonnes and TONNES of non-paid users out there- I am generally one of them, although not currently- who are perfectly peaceable and not-trolls. Is this general procedure anywhere? Is there a precedent for this kind of thing?

Anyway, a bunch of people (myself included) said in the comments of that post that they thought paid-account only was a bad idea for pretty much that reason. Then there was another trolling, and a few hours later the maintainer- who I haven't seen much of, frankly, but I guess I just might not have seen him/her active before- came in, deleted it, and posted saying it was going paid-account only except for "some free account users" who could comment at that post to have their application reviewed, or whatever. A couple- like three- people said, with varying degrees of niceness, what they thought of that (buried among at least a dozen people asking to be allowed to remain on) and then the maintainer posted again saying basically everyone's so ungrateful for her hard work in maintaining the community that it was going to be deleted in 24 hours. WTF? Totally out of character for community & just... silly.

*sigh* I like that community. fssssss.

if it ends up on fandom_wank, I might cry.

ETA: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAaHAHAHAHAHAHA there's a rational explanation for this, apparently: the person I thought was the maintainer was a TROLL disguised as the maintainer. I could almost applaud. *sigh*

I still think paid-only is a siriusly stoopid concept.

Comments

[pyralid.livejournal.com]

Honestly, though, I wouldn't be surprised; I like the maintainer there much less than most of the (actual) members. I've found she tends to be very quickly judgemental and rigid in her views of what is "good" poetry. I'm disappointed that there's someone out there who's bored enough to troll the community to that degree--it's getting annoying to have it on my friends list, and I would be so sad to leave.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Ditto to everything- silverflurry the journal itself has long since been abandoned & sos the journal she moved to after that, with no notes of where she is now, or if she's still on LJ- because she maintains two communities it's so irresponsible. I really think she should give maintenance to someone else but I guess she's not like that either. :-/

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

That is...pretty messed-up.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

:-/ Yeah

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

! I missed it? Poo.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

LOL yes. ;)

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Saw some of it. Why would someone do that?