reddragdiva | I apologise for going on about LiveTwitFace again.

Stay classy, LiveTwitFace:

An LJ staffer using his staff admin powers to leave a creepy comment on a locked post (difficult, but possible; he did have database access at the time) and showing it to other staff members for their amusement.
(He claims he didn't actually unlock the post, he just found it lying there inexplicably unlocked; given he admits the rest and has means, motive and opportunity, I find it difficult to extend him the benefit of unreasonable doubt.)
An LJ staffer busted using a sockpuppet to troll the latest news post telling people he's going to crosspost their stuff just to piss them off. (Archive.)

People say "oh, it's all those Russians, the US LJ staff are nice people." But the actual available evidence of behaviour strongly suggests that, for your own safety, you should regard anyone who's still working for LJ as actively dangerous to your safety unless they have amazing character references and a truly spectacular excuse to still be there.

The staffer who twiddled the database to comment on a locked post is still working for them instead of his stalker ass being thrown out onto the street so hard he bounced twice. LJ allows its staff to treat your private entries as a perk of the job. Think about whether it's safe even commenting on LJ.

Update: Feel free to link this (as http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/543143.html) far and wide. I posted it to Facebook and Twitter ;-)

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From:

jauncourt

Crusading posts like these always make me picture you in a unitard with ridiculous belt and cape. Oh, and a mask. And probably lipstick.

Just thought you should know. ;)

I'm currently weighing whether I even want to keep an lj account anymore, even though I would lose a dozen or more folks who I am very fond of, if I chose to leave outright. Several have turned down invite codes on the assumption that the devil you know is better than the one you don't know.

From:

arkady

Which begs the question: why did they join LJ in the first place?

From:

reddragdiva

Because they followed their friends, same as always.

The alt.gothic clump seems to be coming here now.

From:

arethinn

The alt.gothic clump seems to be coming here now.

ORLY? Any communities to this effect?

From:

reddragdiva

Nah, just us late '90s lot with "alt.gothic" as an interest.

From:

arethinn

Ah, I see. Never listed it myself as I wasn't a terribly active poster (I used to be "Sinister Dexter"). Geez it's been ages since I looked at a.g or abpeg...

From:

jauncourt

Excellent point, and the very one that most are dancing delicately around. Sigh.

From:

reddragdiva

This is normal. One day it'll be one shit sandwich too many and then you see a social subgroup come over as a clump.

From:

jauncourt

I already have a couple of clumps over here, which is why it's been as easy as it has. But, there are still a few who are suspicious of it, or what have you.

I went over my FL there to weed out superfluous stuff, so I could see what the real lj-associated-friend activty is like, and discovered that being mostly on DW has actually caused someone who was suspicious of DW to unfriend me outright, no goodbye. Oh well.

I dislike the drama that is generated by the other drama.

From:

reddragdiva

I'm still crossposting there and will probably continue to do so.

From:

jauncourt

So am I, though the recent issue has all but silenced so may people that I have little to go over there to read. It's something that I'll have to consider for a couple of weeks, just to see if anything comes back. Right now it's nearly all featured community spam. I might take them off and see what it's really like, because just now it's all communities and folks who are crossposting from here.

If everyone i want to read is here, I might as well just be here. But I'll give it a bit. Who knows.

From:

alextiefling

May I pick your brains? How do I set up my DW->LJ crossposting so it works like yours, please? I like the idea of only allowing commenting over here, in the circumstances.

From:

reddragdiva

1. Account Settings -> Other Sites
3. Tick "Crosspost by default".
2. Tick "Disable comments on other site".
3. Add footer to other site "always".
4. My footer text: This entry was originally posted at <a href="%%url%%">DreamWidth</a> and has %%comment_image%% comments. You can <a href="%%reply_url%%">comment there</a> using your LiveJournal name via OpenID.

From:

alextiefling

Thank you!

From:

arkady

Handy tip if you're referring to user accounts on different sites when cross-posting: DW has a little addition to the LJ code. To post my LJ user name instead of my DW one, for instance, I'd use the following:

<lj-user="arkady" site="livejournal.com">

Which looks like

arkady. It works for community names, too.

Edited Date: 2010-09-12 12:22 am (UTC)

From:

jld

That's <lj user="whomever" site="livejournal.com"> (space, not hyphen), I believe. Actually I didn't know that that worked for lj user= until now, although of course it makes sense in hindsight; I'd been doing <user name="whomever" site="livejournal.com">.

From:

arkady

Actually, it works either with a space or with a hyphen. I used a hyphen for my username above.

From:

jld

That's odd. I actually tried running <lj-user="xlerb" site="livejournal.com"> through the comment previewer before I commented, and got an error. I wonder what happens if I ignore the error and just post it:

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<lj-user="xlerb">') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

From:

gehayi

You've got a hyphen between "lj" and "user." The hyphen shouldn't be there.

From:

jld

Yes. That is, in fact, exactly what I said in my earlier comment, but

arkady had observed it working with the hyphen, so I Tried Science by doing it deliberately. And Science told me that it's just as invalid as it's always been. So I'm not entirely clear on what was going on there (although I wonder if there's a browser extension that autocorrects it, since it's not entirely uncommon from what I've seen).

From:

amadi

Best thing to do is just go with the intuitive Dreamwidth versions: <user name="foo" site="bar.com"> and <cut> or <cut text="foo bar">. No confusing hyphens where hyphens may or may not belong.

From:

kitters

Random, but I've seen people doing this around, and have been wondering how they did it. Thanks!

Does this also work the other way around? Because I've seen people in the LJ News post linking to DW users and comms. Would you just put dreamwidth.org where livejournal.com is?

From:

reddragdiva

Probably not, it's an addition in the DW code.

From:

kitters

Ohhh, I see. Then how are those people doing that, I wonder?

From:

reddragdiva

By hand, I assume. I cannot imagine LJ facilitating it for DW users ...

(I could be wrong.)

From:

kitters

Interesting~ Haha, yeah. Thanks, though!

From:

haruka

If you're trying to link back to DW from LJ, the link is at the bottom of every userinfo page on DW (very convenient, I use them all the time!)

From:

thorfinn

If your post is pushed from DW to LJ using the crossposter, it happily translates the <user> tags for you as it crossposts.

If you're commenting directly on LJ, no such luck.

Edited Date: 2010-09-13 02:36 am (UTC)

From:

kitters

Oh, cool to know. Thanks!

From:

mage

At the bottom of your profile there's a section called "Linking". The bottom one is the code you use on LJ (or any other LJ coded site) to link to DW. :)

From:

omnipotent

y halo thar

From:

mage

At the bottom of your profile there's a section called "Linking". The bottom one is the code you use on LJ (or any other LJ coded site) to link to DW. :)

Yours is:
<a href='http://kitters.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /><a href='http://kitters.dreamwidth.org/'>kitters

From:

kitters

I'd seen that on my profile page, but didn't really know what it was. Thanks a lot!

Faye is awesome, by the way. Cowboy Bebop. <3 XD /random

From:

ravensson

If you look at the bottom of your profile page, there's a section called linking. You copy and paste the bottom HTML to post a link outside of Dreamwidth.

(Out of nowhere, I'm sorry ;) I was one of the ones linking to people in the News post)

From:

kitters

Ooooh! I'd seen that on my profile page, but didn't really know what it was. That's pretty nifty! Thanks a lot!

From:

jhumor

PDF Evidence:

The original Troll Posts sorry for the cutoffs, but you get the idea.

What you see now

From:

ravan

They are lucky I'm not their manager over there. That kind of shit in tech support or sysadmin work is grounds for immediate termination with cause, without references - as in, good luck finding a job in the field.

From:

nowgoesquickly

Is it okay if I link to this over at my old LJ? I want the people on my flist who have chosen to remain there to understand exactly why doing so is a bad idea.

From:

reddragdiva

Link away wildly! Post it to Facebook and Twitter if you like, I did ;-)

From:

groovesinorbit

Mind if I link to this? News of this insanity needs to be spread far and wide.

From:

reddragdiva

Go for it, note added saying so. Hey, I even put it on Facebook and Twitter ;-p

From:

groovesinorbit

Awesome! Thanks!

From:

samsharessometimes

Thanks for this and the code I found in the comments was really helpful too! I'll be posting the insanity to my flocked LJ journal along with your link, if that's ok, there's a couple of friends I need to reach!

From:

sidhedmento

Thank you for this and arkady's post. Due to the privacy violations by LJ staff that you brought up I have deleted one of my LJs and may delete another one. One shit sandwich too many indeed.

From:

redcountess

Got a current list of LJ archivers? I might back up my old entries and delete my account too. Things have indeed gone too far.

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