LJ Spam

[hmmm_tea]

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.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

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.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

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.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

"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.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

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 (http://hmmm-tea.livejournal.com/213625.html), for example, got the following comments (all now deleted as spam):

• When is our senior prom and grad night? I heard it will be on April 18th. The date has been changed. Please reconfirm now when it exactly will be.


• April 18th.


• Where? In Hawaii? At Kahala Hotel?


• Are we going to graduate in April?


• Yes?

Also seem to have had quite a few in random character sets recently.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

You can change the comment settings to show CAPTCHA to anonymous posters.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's already switched on.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Huh - that's worked pretty well for me. I guess I'm still undiscovered territory.