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squeaky

12/20/12 10:14 pm

We are very sorry for the current issues that are cropping up each night. The issue is we are getting overwhelmed with spam posts and don't have the funds to add the hardware needed to deal with it. We are doing what we can but it is a very difficult situation.

Please bear with us.

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  controls_lady

  12/22/12 02:27 am (UTC)

  

  Thanks firefoxfey. I hadn't thought about what you brought up. My computer training was in software, not hardware, and I don't think about the stat pages. Going to have to fairly soon, as I'm going to co-moderate a list starting in January, but that's neither here nor there.
  
  What can I do to help, then? Right now I am only working part time, so I have more free time that I can schedule better.
  
  I bookmarked the stat page into my morning checklist, so I can look at the journals in the updated journals lists. I know many of them will be spam.
  
  I must definitely be using the wrong searches now, because I don't come across many active journals or asylums. Maybe I shouldn't go just by how long it's been since a user posted? Because, for example, your last post in your journal shows to me as in March 18, 2008. You're obviously still here :).
  
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  • Re: Active accounts are ?

    foxfirefey

    12/22/12 02:46 am (UTC)

    I think what you can do is definitely up to squeaky! But offer him your services for spam fighting. Or maybe submit a support request to the support board offering help?
    
    The stats page is the easiest way I know, but if he could get this page to work again that would help too:
    
    http://www.insanejournal.com/stats/latest.bml
    
    Once you have a good grasp on the topics getting spammed, you can also google "insanejournal TOPIC". Example: "insanejournal cheap". It will bring up a bunch of links to spam blogs on IJ.
    
    You're going to either need the ability to suspend accounts, or the ability to give somebody a list for the accounts to be suspended.
    
    (I have the announcements journal of IJ in my RSS reader, so I know when a new post happens! But I don't really make posts here or anything--it's good for me to have an account around to test things and whatnot. Maybe I should make it a perm, help squeaky out a bit.)

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