LJ Spam

11th Apr, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Is it just me or have the number of spam comments on here increased?

Most of my public posts seem to be picking up a few at the moment.

I like the fact that anyone can comment freely, but I'm getting tired of deleting all these, so much as I don't want to I think I'm going to have to screen anonymous comments, so I can moderate what is published.

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Current Mood: annoyed
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pellegrina

11th Apr, 2009 13:09 (UTC)

I switched my journal to friends-only at the beginning of the year to deal with a former RL friend who had developed trollish tendencies, so I have not had anything of the kind.

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hmmm_tea

11th Apr, 2009 23:19 (UTC)

I don't think I'd ever go friends-only. Seems to somehow defeat the point of blogging, which is why the vast majority of my posts are public.

Then I suppose lj does have the whole social networking side to it as well, but I tend to view that as somewhat secondary.

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pellegrina

12th Apr, 2009 09:20 (UTC)

"Blogging" and "LJing" are two completely different beasts to me; I guess I see the blog part as secondary to the social part.

I think that was the whole problem with my former friend; he was a Blogger and he found LJ silly and embarrassing and beneath me - I think his former high regard for me led him to expect I should have a glittering Blog of Intellect, not a cosy circle of friends - and so he would go around leaving snide comments about my friends to the point where (since he was ignoring all other forms of contact) I figured we weren't actually friends any more. Sad.

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hmmm_tea

11th Apr, 2009 23:16 (UTC)

It so much trolls, I'm not so bothered about them. It's the complete random ones unconnected with my posts, that are annoying me.

The being human post yesterday, for example, got the following comments (all now deleted as spam):