PSA: You can now lock comments on old LJ posts.

[brooksmoses]

baratron was lamenting in a recent entry that you can't lock comments on an LJ post without also disappearing all the ones that already exist.

It turns out, however, that you can now do that. (I think it's a relatively recent addition that nobody noticed because it didn't tick off half of the userbase.) Edit the entry, and change the "Allow Comments" setting to "Locked". This is documented as the second bullet point under "Changing Comment Settings on this FAQ entry.

Dreamwidth doesn't support this yet, but I'm going to go file a feature request as soon as I post this. I'm not sure what happens if you set comments on a LiveJournal post to "locked" and then import the post into Dreamwidth.

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[rosefox]

That's a good question! I thought that turning off comments on DW still left the existing comments visible, but I just checked and it doesn't.

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Thanks for this! I've gone and locked a few older posts that seem to be disproportionate spam magnets. The pace of LJ spam seems to have accelerated in recent weeks - maybe this will slow them down a little.