Now first off I KNOW you guys do tremendous work, particularly on my many journal entries and I do NOT want to complain, but I have to ask one question: is there a reason why stupid, one-word comments are getting into journals? One in mine a while back read "haha" and I see one in a journal that hasn't been updated since 2010 with a comment "lol". Oh yeah, and from someone with the princely sum of one post.
How can that happen?
Again, I know you're all busy and things slip through, and I'm also sure there are tons of stupid, pointless entries that aren't getting approved, but can I just ask, if the idea of having our journal entries sent for approval is, mostly, to make sure they're ok and to keep the spam out, how is it getting in? Of course everyone can make a mistake, and I don't know how the system works --- do you just click on a link, checkbox or other, or do you have to read to the end of the entry and then hit "Post" or something? --- but it seems to me that a one-word post like "lol" would or should automatically get rejected. It's just annoying to see these things making their way into journals. It's a bit of an insult to the author from the poster, and a bit of a disappointment that our "first line of defence" is in some cases failing.
Once again, please do not think I'm getting at anyone, trying to tell you how to do your jobs (which you all do so well anyway) and I'm sure you'll take into account I've never criticised the system this way before, so I hope this thread will be taken in the spirit it's intended. I just wanted to point out that these annoying little spam-posts are getting in, and as they can't unless they're approved, someone is approving them, presumably by mistake or maybe a little carelessness/tiredness/apathy at repetition. Maybe someone thought they were deleting spam but were in the approval section? Again, I don't know how it works.
I'm just asking that this problem -- small as it is and relatively isolated -- be perhaps just looked at a little more closely. There can be few things as annoying as a journal writer than seeing a new comment in your journal, only to find it's a bloody idiot posting spam or a one liner.
Man, I suppose I'll get into a real firestorm over this, but I think it needed to be said. I hope nobody takes offence; it's just me pointing out something which I think should be addressed.
Thanks for all the hard work guys and please don't permaban me for this, Urban!
TH