More Dreamwidth settings!

[ljwrites]

In today's edition of "Maybe I should sit down and read the whole settings page," I discovered from the comment section of a journal I visited that there's an option to screen anonymous comments and I enabled it for my own journal. It's in Account Settings > Privacy > comment screening. You can select "anonymous comments" among the screening options.

Below the comment screening setting there are also anti-spam and CAPTCHA options you might find useful. I opted to show CAPTCHA to anonymous commenters and selected text-based anti-spam tests.

At the bottom of the privacy settings I also discovered a couple of search-based options as well. You can decide whether to include your journal in site-wide search, and inclusion is the default so if that's not something you want you should turn it off.

Also, if your journal is searchable you can decide who can use the search function: Any logged-in user, people on your access list (this is the default), or only you. I realized that only people on my access list could search the journal because this is the default option, and changed the setting to enable search for any logged-in user. If I could I'd enable it for everyone.

On the other hand, if you are concerned with harassers, antis, and other assorted dirt-diggers trawling your blog or at least don't want to make it easy for them, you might want to keep your default or restrict search even further to yourself only.

Comments

[lb_lee]

Oh man, I didn't know you knew about that stuff!

I've actually had shockingly little trouble with spam on LJ or DW. I don't know if I just had luck or what; there were a couple spam accounts that friended me ages ago, but I haven't had a problem with any of those in years, I think! Not like tumblr, where I was constantly having to weed out the pornbots. (Seriously why are there so many pornbots. Legit porn artists who are real people have been run off because of the new policy AND THEIR USERNAMES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY PORNBOTS. AUGH.)

I am not certain whether my journal is in the site-wide search; I'm presuming yes, since I do want it to be findable. But I've kept my account searchable only to me, and now I'm thinking I might want it searchable by access list!

BTW, do you remember that "Running Away With The Fairies" post you showed me ages ago? It looks like that LJ has been deleted, and I can't find the essay any longer. I don't suppose you have a copy anywhere, or know the OP? *puppy eyes*

[ljwrites]

I've personally been followed by fewer spambots recently, but it probably has to do with things slowing down for me in general on Tumblr, and the reblog pornbots are definitely still there. So much for family friendly, Tumblr!

If you haven't touched the sitewide search setting you're searchable, since that's the default. My concern is with the people who don't want to be searched, since I don't think most users know about this option.

Op's LJ is gone but she's sparklesquid on here now! I've been wanting to read that essay again myself, but I don't think that one's been ported over. None of her LJ is, as far as I can tell.

[lb_lee]

For real, the pornbot army is like the zombies of legend: dumb and weak but omnipresent, nevertiring, and neverending.

And yeah, I can totally understand why some folks wouldn't want to be searched!

Hmmm, maybe I can poke the sparklesquid and ask if she's willing to reupload it... would that be creepy, do you think? I think it'd be okay...

--Rogan

[ljwrites]

Why not? I'd love to see it again myself!