Posted to several communities:

Something/someone is going around LJ and hacking accounts of users who mod large communities. After hacking the mod LJ, they go to the community, make a post with links, and then disable comments. They also delete all the community contents (as well as the contents of the mod LJs).

If you see a post in this community by any of our mods:
sistahraven
briar_witch
druidwolf
volare

SAYING THAT WE ARE CLOSING THE COMMUNITY WITH LINKS GIVEN IN THE POST...

1- DO NOT CLICK ON THEM.
2- EMAIL US, PM US, CALL US IF YOU KNOW US PERSONALLY. LET US KNOW ABOUT IT.
3- REPORT THE ENTRY TO LJ (CLICK ON THE FLAG BUTTON)
4- DON'T CLICK LINKS!!!


MORE INFO HERE: http://upstart-crow.livejournal.com/346623.html
This link is safe.

We have someone, namely imjustgrowing, indiscriminately and randomly friending people, including several members of our community here.
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Because of the recent almost-troll, I want to re-link you to our page with troll-prevention techniques listed.

You can find that information here with recommendations on how to keep them out of your personal journal and communities

With the recent troll, and since there have been trolls targeting personal journals of our members, I wanted to post some tips on how to prevent trolls, or at least be able to report them when and if they visit your journal.

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rapehamstors is back everyone, so check your friends list for him.

He's obnoxious and horrid

To ban him from your LJ go to the Admin console and type "ban_set rapehamstors" (minus the quotes, obviously). This will ban him from your personal LJ. If you maintain any communities and also want him banned, type "ban_set rapehamstors from communityname" replacing communityname with the name of your community.

Ignore what LJ tells you to do on the reference - copying all their extra brackets and quotes will make the darn console fail.