Sky not falling yet

[azurelunatic]

http://news.livejournal.com/127507.html went out earlier today with some inaccurate information about the criteria for purging inactive journals. Details.

Comments

[charmian]

Thankfully they're dealing with the notification issue, finally.

Though, re: the purge, doesn't that mean they'll losing the bragging rights of having 26 million journals? (As IIRC, the amount of journals defined as 'inactive' using those criteria is probably in the millions)

[azurelunatic]

There is that! But maintainers will no longer be tripping over god-damned spammer accounts with suspended entries and comments.

[charmian]

Maintainers as in comm maintainers? I hadn't realized that the spam problem was still going so badly (I haven't been hit w/ spam on LJ for a long time).

I wonder how many of those suspended spammers there are.

[jd]

From my perspective, it's definitely better than it used to be like a year ago, but some of the comms I watch have had a little bit of an upswing in the past bit.

[azurelunatic]

I think it's better than it was, as they have deployed a few Things, I hear, but every couple weeks, a few of them try and hose suggestions.

[azurelunatic]

But keep in mind, since they have not yet purged suspended accounts, LJ has 11 years of spam kicking around from all the suspended spammers. Though I think they may have fixed a few of the things where maintainers were sometimes running into suspended entries that they couldn't see or otherwise manipulate, but that were there and getting in their way. Moderation queue and prev/next, I believe, were the places that I remember hearing about problems.

[charmian]

Whoa, I see. Hopefully getting rid of the suspended accounts will improve things for maintainers and other users.

On the other hand, now I'm kind of wondering, will all of these purges impact the performance of the site?