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Delete Comments, Report Spambots, Accelerator Add-on, Find Your Friends
Happy April! All joking aside, we thought you might find these new features helpful in your day-to-day LJ life:

Delete All Comments from a User

It's a bummer when an unwelcome guest pays a visit to your journal and leaves a bunch of rude comments behind. Cleaning up after them can take a long time. That's why we've made it easier to mass-delete comments from a single user in a post. When you click Delete on one comment by that user, a dialog box pops up that gives you the option to delete all the comments by that user in the post. Happy spring cleaning!



Report a Spambot

We've also made it easier to report a user that you suspect of being a spambot. The pop-up menu that's visible when you hover your mouse over the userhead icon now includes an option to report that user as a bot.



Just click on "Report a Bot" to get the investigation going.

Accelerator in Internet Explorer 8

The latest version of Internet Explorer has a new add-on for LiveJournal users. Accelerator makes it easy for you to quickly post an entry about an article or web page to your journal without having to leave the site where you found the item you're writing about. Just select the text you want to post and let Accelerator do the rest.

Have You Found Your Friends?

The Find Your Friends feature is up and running, helping connect LiveJournal users with friends from their web-based email contacts who are also on LJ. Whether you're new to LJ or you're a longtime user, you just might be able to make an old friend into a new Friend. You can set your own preferences for being found or not found on the Account Settings page under the Privacy tab.

As always, you can get the full details on the latest release in [info]lj_releases.



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[info]vitalitat
2009-04-03 12:27 am UTC (link)
Delete All Comments from a User

I can't tell if that's a bad thing or a good thing.

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[info]germaricanmix
2009-04-03 12:29 am UTC (link)
why would it be bad?

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(no subject) - [info]coolceruleanblu, 2009-04-03 12:32 am UTC (Expand)
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(no subject) - [info]vitalitat, 2009-04-03 12:34 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]seshat_6
2009-04-03 12:27 am UTC (link)
Woo hoo!

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[info]likeanunmadebed
2009-04-03 12:27 am UTC (link)
Are spambots all that common?

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[info]dee_zeno
2009-04-03 12:29 am UTC (link)
i love your username!!!

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(no subject) - [info]likeanunmadebed, 2009-04-03 12:30 am UTC (Expand)
me? - [info]starsongpoet, 2009-04-03 07:29 pm UTC (Expand)
thanks - [info]djacks34, 2009-04-04 01:21 pm UTC (Expand)
Hi - [info]owg, 2009-04-04 02:06 pm UTC (Expand)
username - [info]luciusnergal, 2009-04-06 12:03 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]peardreams, 2009-04-03 12:31 am UTC (Expand)
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You tell me - [info]nympholept, 2009-04-03 09:53 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]countrycanid
2009-04-03 12:29 am UTC (link)
Delicious comment grenades.

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[info]miserabilia
2009-04-03 12:29 am UTC (link)
I was hoping for more useful release bits. Ho hum.

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[info]cholma
2009-04-03 01:24 am UTC (link)
GIVE ME THAT FISH!


(icon love)

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(no subject) - [info]ladylynx, 2009-04-03 02:36 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]germaricanmix
2009-04-03 12:31 am UTC (link)
Deleting all comments from a user seems handy. So it only works for that one post? It doesn't delete all comments through your whole journal?

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[info]crowgrl13
2009-04-03 12:34 am UTC (link)
I agree. I wish they made one to get rid of comments throughout your journal.

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(no subject) - [info]germaricanmix, 2009-04-03 12:39 am UTC (Expand)
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(no subject) - [info]celiloquy, 2009-04-03 12:44 am UTC (Expand)

[info]schonste
2009-04-03 12:31 am UTC (link)
Awesome that it's that easy to report a spambot.

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[info]raggedy_man
2009-04-03 07:07 am UTC (link)
we can spam report the spammers!! ;-p

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(no subject) - [info]purljamber, 2009-04-03 11:52 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]intotheheart
2009-04-03 12:31 am UTC (link)
Thank goodness for the Spambot thing. I've had 2 try and add me this month.

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[info]foxbaby
2009-04-03 03:31 am UTC (link)
just two? I get tons :(

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[info]ladytalon
2009-04-03 12:32 am UTC (link)
We have hover menus? I must have turned those off the instant they came out. But how do I go about my responsible net-life now, without the hover report option?

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[info]schonste
2009-04-03 12:39 am UTC (link)
They show up when you click "Delete".

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(no subject) - [info]ladytalon, 2009-04-03 12:42 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]atalantapendrag
2009-04-03 12:32 am UTC (link)
Spambots have been showing up a lot lately, thank you for making it a little easier to do something about them!

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[info]georgiarepublic
2009-04-03 12:32 am UTC (link)
That delete all feature will be a useful addition for a few people I know.

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[info]clubmaster
2009-04-03 12:33 am UTC (link)
Thank you for the spambot thing. they really annoy the crap out of me

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[info]flockofgulls
2009-04-03 01:22 am UTC (link)
This.

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[info]polyemtgirl
2009-04-03 12:33 am UTC (link)
Any thoughts of getting accelerator in the works for Firefox as well?

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[info]fencer_x
2009-04-03 12:36 am UTC (link)
I don't know that "Accelerator" is the name of the actual goodie -- Accelerators are what they're calling IE8 add-ons (personally, I prefer...yanno, "add-on" :P). So you're hoping for someone to develop an instapost-to-LJ add-on for FF :) Which would be admittedly nice...

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(no subject) - [info]polyemtgirl, 2009-04-03 12:43 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]coolceruleanblu
2009-04-03 12:34 am UTC (link)
the suspected bot account thing is AWESOME. I'm so happy for that!

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[info]chrisgaines
2009-04-03 06:12 am UTC (link)
Why are you "so happy" for that? Why don't you just delete it if you suspect it's a bot? Getting so giddy over something you can do with the simple DEL button is so fanatical.

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(no subject) - [info]coolceruleanblu, 2009-04-03 06:23 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]daluci
2009-04-03 12:36 am UTC (link)
Thanks so much for the delete all comments feature.

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[info]farranger
2009-04-03 12:37 am UTC (link)
These are pretty good little additions, thanks. I wish the Accelerator thing worked for Firefox.

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[info]sushisweetie
2009-04-03 12:46 am UTC (link)
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I just can't go back to IE.

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(no subject) - [info]chrisgaines, 2009-04-03 06:16 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]dawna
2009-04-03 12:37 am UTC (link)
Aww no mention here of the cancel comm invites? Its the best new thing of them all! :)

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[info]silent_twin
2009-04-03 01:02 am UTC (link)
This! I'm so tired of people I don't know inviting me to their communities that I have little to no interest in. *gag*

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(no subject) - [info]amanda, 2009-04-03 01:55 am UTC (Expand)

[info]casrin
2009-04-03 12:38 am UTC (link)
Unless I need to add some feature on that I'm not currently using, I don't see a pop-up when I put the mouse over a userhead. And, ironically, I think a bot landed on my account today...

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[info]astronewt
2009-04-03 12:42 am UTC (link)
You can turn the hover feature on here: http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=display

Just activate the 'Hover Menu' checkbox there and you should be good to go. :)

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(no subject) - [info]casrin, 2009-04-03 12:47 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]onlylisa
2009-04-03 12:42 am UTC (link)
Good to be able to report spambots.

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[info]celiloquy
2009-04-03 12:42 am UTC (link)
CHECK IT OUT. I love the first one! The rest don't really apply to me.

One thing you may want to consider is releasing accelerator for Firefox. I don't know one single LJ user who doesn't use Firefox and who does use IE.

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[info]marta
2009-04-03 12:43 am UTC (link)
You can also use the bookmarklet to post using Firefox.

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(no subject) - [info]celiloquy, 2009-04-03 12:45 am UTC (Expand)
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[info]07janina07
2009-04-03 12:43 am UTC (link)
Nice easier way to report a bot. We need more of an option to let someone you don't know have you in their friend list.

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[info]frust_sheep
2009-04-03 07:36 am UTC (link)
I think this too.

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[info]sushisweetie
2009-04-03 12:45 am UTC (link)
I hope Firefox comes out with something like Accelerator.

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[info]marta
2009-04-03 12:48 am UTC (link)
This will work in Firefox.

Edited - sorry, wrong link :)

Edited at 2009-04-03 12:49 am UTC

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(no subject) - [info]sushisweetie, 2009-04-03 12:52 am UTC (Expand)
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(no subject) - [info]eevee, 2009-04-03 01:39 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]writer420
2009-04-03 12:47 am UTC (link)
OMG, THANK YOU FOR "FIND YOUR FRIENDS." i've been raving about this for like two years lol.

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[info]uozlulu
2009-04-03 12:50 am UTC (link)
Now if only we could get a button like this to report spambot posts to communities easily.

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[info]schonste
2009-04-03 12:50 am UTC (link)
Does that hover menu thingie work with Chrome?

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[info]tormentacorazon
2009-04-03 12:54 am UTC (link)
Yes; I use Chrome.

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That's right, sorry. - [info]kaije_armena, 2009-04-05 08:38 am UTC (Expand)

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