Comment spam

Oct. 17th, 2008 at 9:25 AM

It's happening again - spam comments from sock-puppet accounts to various old entries. Anyone else getting it? (Apart from those whose comments are being replied to.) I'm just deleting the messages and tagging them as spam.

I wondered if last week's attack might be deliberate harassment by someone who disagrees with me politically, but now I think it is just some idiot spammer.

Current Mood: annoyed

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saare_snowqueen

Oct. 17th, 2008 07:28 am (UTC)

I'm getting them to comments I made in a writer friend's journal. They seem totally stupid so like you I'm just deleting them.

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slovobooks

Oct. 17th, 2008 07:42 am (UTC)

Again, I've had a pair this morning on

glycon.

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flick

Oct. 17th, 2008 07:49 am (UTC)

I've just this minute had one on a comment I made on

owlfish's LJ around (from the content) last October or November.

Edit: Actually, make that two years ago, at least.

Edited at 2008-10-17 07:49 am (UTC)

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del_c

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:02 am (UTC)

And mine on SFWA.

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del_c

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:01 am (UTC)

I got one this morning to a comment I made elsewhere long ago. It almost made sense apart from being a nonsequitur, so I went to the journal, which was just a Markov chain of nonsense phrases.

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del_c

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:07 am (UTC)

I'm thinking it's about time LJ implemented a CAPTCHA scheme, or something similar, for comments from free accounts. Opt-in on the part of the target journal's owner, of course, like comment screening is now.

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sammywol

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:37 am (UTC)

Well that's one comment that makes a lot more sense now. How bizarre though!

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bopeepsheep

Oct. 17th, 2008 09:01 am (UTC)

You can get the last 10-100 comments for any community at any given time, and I have more than once seen mention of a utility/tool that claims to grab all comments in the manner of a newsfeed. I haven't bothered looking into it myself - the biggest community I mod is pretty much spam-free anyway - but I could see it being useful in cases of persistent trouble. You'd need to give any such utility your log-in details though for it to work, which is not the best idea...

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sierra_le_oli

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:51 am (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, I just got one on an entry half a year old. Hope it stays at the one comment like last week, I don't like the idea of my commenters getting mailed with this crap.

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jdigital

Oct. 17th, 2008 08:52 am (UTC)

Same, on

interdictor. I know some bloggers who disable comments on old posts for this reason, although I don't know if Livejournal has this feature.

I've reported the ones I've spotted, but there's no automated way to do so.

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dalmeny

Oct. 17th, 2008 11:37 am (UTC)

It's odd. In response to one of my comments, there have been two replies from two different LJ accounts with exactly the same text, which almost makes sense.

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