diesel_cafe LJ community despammed. Anyone want to take it over?

[ron_newman]

If you left, or stopped watching, the diesel_cafe community because it was being overrun by Russian spam, you can return to it now.

I sent a support request to the LJ Abuse Team about the community having an absent or inattentive maintainer, and LJ responded by appointing me as the new owner of that community. I changed the community settings to require people to be members of the community before they can make new posts there (as in davis_square).

I don't especially need to co-maintain another LJ community (davis_square is quite enough), so I'd be happy to turn it over to any Diesel employee or regular patron who can bring the community back to life. Before my recent abuse complaints, there hadn't been a new post there since May, 2009. Any takers?

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I don't see any reason to maintain that community at all.

[ron_newman]

You may well be right, but if so, it deserves a more dignified death than being overrun by Russian spammers. I won't delete the community in any event, since I don't believe in destroying useful history.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I own a few nearly dead communities -- it doesn't really take up a lot of time. Yanno.

[ron_newman]

Have you had any success in trying to revive a dead community? If so, I'd be interested in learning how you did it.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

No, specifically, I mean, if no one is posting, then you don't really spend a lot of time moderating it.