Not delicious at all, actually.

I apologize to everyone for the spamming that occurred while I was struggling to sleep last night. Everything extraneous should be deleted now, and my RSS feed should return to normal shortly.

To be clear, it is not Brizzly that caused the spam — it is Delicious.

I have Delicious set up to post my links to cygnoir.net once a day. (cygnoir.net also cross-posts to LiveJournal.) It has done this for many months with no incident. In the middle of the night, Delicious decided on its own to start posting every half-hour, thus spamming my Facebook friends, my LiveJournal friends, and anyone subscribed to my RSS feed. Fantastic.

For some reason, I cannot delete the setting on Delicious, so I’ve contacted their support team and I’ve changed cygnoir.net’s password.

TL;DR: Brizzly is not the culprit, nor is Twitter, nor is WordPress. Something went wrong with Delicious’ automatic link posting. I won’t be enabling that “feature” again.

Again, I apologize for the inconvenience, and I hope that you will keep reading cygnoir.net.

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

Posted on 23 Jun 2010 in Diary
  • scarbelly

    wow. that WAS a lot of spam.

    • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/cygnoir cygnoir

      Yes, I already know this, feel awful about it, and have apologized multiple times for it.

      Since you have commented twice now about it, here and on my Facebook wall, is there something else you'd like me to do?

  • http://www.michaelhanscom.com/ Michael Hanscom

    I read your apology (via FB and Twitter) before I came across the repeated posts. Since forewarned is forearmed, I've actually been finding the repetition kind of amusing…sort of an electronic Groundhog Day. To my mind, it's just an electronic glitch, and not something terribly major. No biggie.

    • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/cygnoir cygnoir

      Thanks, Michael. I hope to find it amusing as the day wears on …

  • http://www.scriptin.us John

    Nothing to be too sad about. Shit happens!

    • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/cygnoir cygnoir

      It's true, John. And it usually happens when I try to do something interesting with this site. :)