"...updating your journal is a good idea, otherwise LJ thinks you're a spammer."
I never realized this until LJ began talking of deleting inactive accounts (last year, was it?)—not that mine was "inactive", since I log in pretty well every day.
As I'm sure you recall, there were loud outcries; and they hastily assured everyone that they had a special status for deceased members. They also said that, although they would make inactive user names available for others to use, they would not delete those people's comments, but mark them in some way.
However, they did make it clear that, if there was nothing in the journal but LJ's official "welcome" message, then they would deem it a spam account and delete all comments. Which alarmed me, since I'd never used the blog feature at all, being interested only in joining communities.
I mean, I've posted stories to a couple of places, commented on friends' entries, and participated in long discussions, especially on maryrenaultfics. I don't want the stories lost; and I'm reasonably sure there are others who don't, either, at least for the longer ones. And there are threads in some discussions that would make no sense if my part were to disappear—not to mention the ones where I was the one who made the original post and led the discussion.
So posting something to the blog was a bit of a priority. If only, as I put it, in case I get run down by a car. (Not that I plan to be, of course—but who does?)
However, I had no idea that LJ was marking private messages as "suspicious" I've certainly sent them before without any problem. Or none that anyone's mentioned. Perhaps this is another of TPTB's new little tweaks. LJ's had quite a number of changes recently.
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I never realized this until LJ began talking of deleting inactive accounts (last year, was it?)—not that mine was "inactive", since I log in pretty well every day.
As I'm sure you recall, there were loud outcries; and they hastily assured everyone that they had a special status for deceased members. They also said that, although they would make inactive user names available for others to use, they would not delete those people's comments, but mark them in some way.
However, they did make it clear that, if there was nothing in the journal but LJ's official "welcome" message, then they would deem it a spam account and delete all comments. Which alarmed me, since I'd never used the blog feature at all, being interested only in joining communities.
I mean, I've posted stories to a couple of places, commented on friends' entries, and participated in long discussions, especially on
So posting something to the blog was a bit of a priority. If only, as I put it, in case I get run down by a car. (Not that I plan to be, of course—but who does?)
However, I had no idea that LJ was marking private messages as "suspicious" I've certainly sent them before without any problem. Or none that anyone's mentioned. Perhaps this is another of TPTB's new little tweaks. LJ's had quite a number of changes recently.