Guess the honeymoon's over

May. 4th, 2009 11:28 am
triadruid: Pseudocode for "If nothing else, remember this." (codemonkey)
[personal profile] triadruid posting in [community profile] dwstones
Dreamwidth apparently got overzealous and deactivated active communities in their effort to stop the "username landgrab". (oops, twice)

There should have been a betting pool for when the first script-related administrative error came up...
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Date: 2009-05-04 04:38 pm (UTC)
hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (Default)
From: [personal profile] hatman
Yeah. Bound to happen sooner or later. Mistakes are inevitable. The important thing, IMO, is how they're dealt with, and so far, I've been very impressed with DW in that regard.

Date: 2009-05-04 04:43 pm (UTC)
triadruid: Apollo and the Raven, c. 480 BC , Pistoxenus Painter (Default)
From: [personal profile] triadruid
Sure, it had to happen sooner or later, but "check if the communities have valid posts" is one of those things that should have been on the short list.

Date: 2009-05-04 06:22 pm (UTC)
katieastrophe: selfie photo of katie in krakow, poland - wearing a black coat, black tshirt, & red trousers, & smiling (Default)
From: [personal profile] katieastrophe
This is on the assumption that a script can tell if a community has a "valid post". I very much doubt it can.

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Date: 2009-05-04 07:58 pm (UTC)
triadruid: Pseudocode for "If nothing else, remember this." (codemonkey)
From: [personal profile] triadruid
First pass should have been communities without any posts (or members other than the maintainer) yet. Flag those communities with posts that otherwise meet the script's criteria for human review.

This would have 100% prevented this snarl. It's exactly what a "transparent, responsive, forward-thinking journaling site" should have done, at minimum cost to the process which was being initiated in response to a legitimate problem.

Date: 2009-05-05 12:45 am (UTC)
phoenix: ink-and-watercolour drawing -- girl looking calmly over her shoulder (Default)
From: [personal profile] phoenix
I don't believe those were mistakes, just someone caught out who was trying to claim they were. If they had been, I think this *would* be a serious issue.

Date: 2009-05-05 02:51 am (UTC)
triadruid: Apollo and the Raven, c. 480 BC , Pistoxenus Painter (Default)
From: [personal profile] triadruid
Interesting presumptions you have there.

Date: 2009-05-06 04:33 am (UTC)
desert_rn: Lili at the AZ Renn Faire (Default)
From: [personal profile] desert_rn
yeah, she's pretty much the ass in assume, isn't she?

Date: 2009-05-05 12:44 am (UTC)
phoenix: ink-and-watercolour drawing -- girl looking calmly over her shoulder (Default)
From: [personal profile] phoenix
Based on my investigating, those are both related to the same user (the commenter in the second link), who registered about twenty communities for her tiny group of friends. I don't think it was undeserved.

Date: 2009-05-05 04:19 am (UTC)
hatman: HatMan, my alter ego and face on the 'net (Default)
From: [personal profile] hatman
Does that include [personal profile] single and [community profile] thequestionclub? Not entirely sure it's related, but both of those suddenly disappeared.

(ETA: I see the latter has been reinstated.)
Edited Date: 2009-05-05 04:20 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-05 01:18 pm (UTC)
pne: An image of a sim from the game "The Sims 2", representing me. (sim me)
From: [personal profile] pne
You mean [personal profile] naughty?

I know she created a number of Sims-related communities, which I wouldn't have found that unusual since she's moderately active in the LiveJournal Sims "scene" (and I think also maintains some related communities there).
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