Possibly a stupid question

[ffutures]

I don't have comment notification enabled - I look at my journal most days, and usually notice if comments have been added to the last few days of posts; beyond that I generally don't bother, since there rarely seems to be a lot of point.

A couple of times that has meant that important comments on old posts have gone unnoticed, or that comment spam sits there for quite a while before someone brings it to my attention.

I'd really prefer not to re-enable notification, I already get too much email, so this will probably continue to be the case.

Is there any reasonably idiot-proof way to set up livejournal so that entries over (say) a month old are automatically locked to block further comments?

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[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Another solution might be to set up a separate gmail account (very easy) to receive the notifications.

Also, LJ may have some sort of page for your account already which shows most recent comments to all entries. 'Home'?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Except I would then have to read the notifications...

I occasionally remember to look at the recent comments thing, but I've missed stuff often enough that it isn't a perfect answer.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

Most spam can be blocked by not allowing anonymous comments. All spam can be blocked by limiting comments to your friends.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm already blocking anonymous, I don't really want to limit commenting to friends since I get a fair number of drive-by comments on my fanfic.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

When I sign onto http://www.livejournal.com/ , there is a menu bar near the top of the screen. If I place the cursor on Journal, one of the suboptions is to choose Comments, which brings up a page that has the ten most recent comments on my journal. Any new comments show up there automatically, enabling me to track them. Do you not have access to this, or do you log on infrequently enough so that you have more than ten accumulated comments when you look at it? Because otherwise I think this might solve most of your problem if you used the feature.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Basically, I stay logged on at the PCs I use regularly, so I don't see that screen very often.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

If you made a routine of going back to it once a day and checking for new comments, might it solve the problem?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm just not that organized!

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

What I do is create a label and a filter in Gmail, and the notifications are automagically directed out of my inbox and into the LJ "Folder", which I can then look through when I have nothing better to do.

If you want a step-by-step I can send you directions, but it is pretty easy.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm already doing that for a couple of other mail sources, so no need.