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Comment screening

  • Sep. 22nd, 2010 at 7:25 PM
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Because of morons who have been registering LiveJournal accounts and inexplicably bombing my older entries with Russian spam, I have had to ratchet down the comment permissiveness -- now everyone who isn't a LiveJournal "friend" will be screened. I will change it back when I can, but I've had three rounds of this now in two days.

I can't figure out the rationale, because they're not links and translations don't suggest that they're keywords. Is there some benefit to posting pointless crap in Russian on old LJ posts?

At any rate, I'm hoping that if the rationale -- assuming there is one -- involves actually being, y'know, web searchable, screening comments will do it. Otherwise I may have to make commenting friend-only.

Granted, I'm mostly writing on Coyote Tracks these days (and even that's been a bit neglected), but this still irks me on general principle.

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[info]jadedfox wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 05:15 am (UTC)
You would be shocked at the number of daily friend requests I get from random russian accounts for that reason. Mine is locked down too.
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[info]chipotle wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 05:49 am (UTC)
*nod* That just irks me on general principle, though -- I tend to think social media should be as "open" as possible, because, well, that's pretty much where the "social" comes from.
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[info]jadedfox wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 03:58 pm (UTC)
Believe me I agree. Kitana's Twitter was open for months, and I started getting a ton of spam to her (not to MINE for some reason) so I locked it down, I just recently open it up and got five within a day. Luckily it's gone away now. Spammers have nearly ruined email, they DID ruin usenet, and I can see them destroying social media as well.
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[info]balinares wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 11:46 am (UTC)
Do you? Weird! I don't remember getting one in years. Maybe the Russian just don't like me. :(
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[info]twentythoughts wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 08:13 am (UTC)
I don't have that problem, but my ICQ account DOES get several daily friend requests from bots that garble at me in Russian. Thinking of just ditching that account, really: I think everyone I know on it is on AIM anyway.
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[info]greenreaper wrote:
Sep. 23rd, 2010 02:58 pm (UTC)
Sometimes the spam links are hidden inside invisible divs (the links show up in the emails, though). Or possibly they're just trying to get their comment rating up to let them get past blocks.

I only really look at LiveJournal, so I just figured you were really busy, like me. :-)
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