Banning coda

spoonishly kindly pointed me to an ETA made by angstytimelord to her original post here.

I would comment on it but I have been banned from commenting on that LJ (that's a first).

***UPDATE***


The IP block has apparently been lifted. No warning, no nothing. I had planned to go to the library today & get online there, but when I tried to bring up LJ this morning, I had no problems.

For those of you calling me a liar & saying that I was never IP blocked, think about this. I post fics EVERY DAY. I have a HUGE backlog of them that I'm trying to get up. If I COULD have posted them, I WOULD have.

In retrospect, deleting everything to do with LJ from my email in a fit of anger wasn't the smartest decision I've ever made. I was so furious that I wanted to get rid of all mention of LJ. Not my finest hour. But again, claiming that I'm a liar when you DO NOT KNOW ME is uncalled for.

I don't start shit with people. I stay in my little corner, write my fics, & don't bother anyone. I WAS IP blocked, & I WAS upset about it -- as I had every right to be. And the way that my inquiry was handled was NOT professional at all.

As people have pointed out to me, that email could have come from a troll, or a staffer who decided to be an ass. But that STILL doesn't explain why I was IP blocked for nearly five days.

From what I've been told, I am NOT the only person this has happened to. So before you level accusations at me, or call me names, you might want to talk to others who've been in the same situation.

I would LOVE to talk to people in this situation. So far I've been told they exist without being given names or details so that makes it kind of hard.

Oh well. That's their moment of fun in the sun.

ETA And now I'm harassing her on Twitter and calling her names. Um. I ASKED for names of anyone else affected and told by LJ slash was the reason they couldn't get to their LJ. Asking/calling: not the same thing.

https://twitter.com/angstytimelord

ETA2 Aja is supporting her on Twitter. Okay, this is JUST LIKE the old days now.

https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/387332109938855936

one last final word from LJ

LJ staff here, and responsible for site policy. This rumor spreading about being blocked for posting slash/gay content is unfounded. Their IP address was temporarily blocked from accessing LiveJournal, and this sort of thing does happen due to anti-spam & anti-DDOS measures which are in place, and these unfortunately do produce some false positives and block people who shouldn't be blocked sometimes. This is completely unrelated to their journal's content, though. If there was a problem with angstytimelord's content, it wouldn't still be accessible; you'd see a message indicating that it was suspended. That didn't happen because there is no problem with their content; they haven't violated site policy. We're very anti-censorship, and while Strikethrough did happen, there's not a single person working for LiveJournal who didn't argue against that decision; the people who made it haven't worked for LiveJournal in 5+ years.

Since some concerns about Russians overtaking the site's policy have been raised, I think it's worth clarifying a few things. All content policy issues are handled by people in the U.S. Any admin tools that can be used to restrict access to content on the site are not accessible to anyone in Russia. LiveJournal's datacenter is in the U.S., not Russia. Russian law does not dictate our site policies. The extent to which the Russian government has affected site content is that we do disable access to certain entries to people who are in Russia; when this happens, we display a message that this content is inaccessible within their region. This is to accommodate a law which forces all internet service providers in Russia to block access to any website which does not comply with this. This means if we choose to not block such content in Russia, everyone in Russia gets blocked from accessing all of LiveJournal. There's an article about this law at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/technology/russia-begins-selectively-blocking-internet-content.html?_r=0.

And posted on ATL\s LJ

I've replied to this elsewhere

(http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3660525.html?thread=83279853#t83279853)
about the site policy aspects of this. I'll summarize again here by
saying this has absolutely nothing to do with site policy, and if you can
PM me any details about what you were sent and by whom, I'd appreciate
it.

What's actually happening is you were/are using a satellite based ISP who
is notorious for having problems accessing LiveJournal pages. What we
believe they do is store the logged-out version of pages and serve these
to anyone on their network instead of sending the logged-in request
directly to LiveJournal to display the real version of pages you should
be seeing. So basically you login, load a new page, and it looks like
you're logged out again. You're not actually being logged out by
LiveJournal; you'll see a bunch of active login sessions if you view
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/logins.bml.

New SPN tonight!

David has soccer. I usually tape stuff and we watch it together; not this time! I will watch it twice instead. I am NOT waiting.

Oddly, the day started with some nice f/b on a really old schmoopy Dean/Sam I wrote and had totally forgotten.

It was fun rereading it again but I'm always on edge waiting for a typo to smack me in the face, lol.

So. SPN now equals Tuesdays or vic eversa. I've never known a show get moved around so much!