Guess the honeymoon's over

[triadruid]

Dreamwidth apparently got overzealous and deactivated active communities in their effort to stop the "username landgrab". (oops, twice)

There should have been a betting pool for when the first script-related administrative error came up...

Comments

[katieastrophe]

This is on the assumption that a script can tell if a community has a "valid post". I very much doubt it can.

Disclaimer: I do breaching experiments for both fun and profit

[triadruid]

First pass should have been communities without any posts (or members other than the maintainer) yet. Flag those communities with posts that otherwise meet the script's criteria for human review.

This would have 100% prevented this snarl. It's exactly what a "transparent, responsive, forward-thinking journaling site" should have done, at minimum cost to the process which was being initiated in response to a legitimate problem.