Spam Policy

[joreth]

 Yes, spammers, I have noticed you posting anonymous comments in really old posts.  Your superficial, generic, and vague "compliments" on my posts do not blind me to the fact that you also posted a URL to some unrelated website that collects credit card numbers, phishes for email addresses, and installs cookies & spyware.  I am not so easily won over by flattery that I completely lose my intelligence.  Does that tactic ever work for anyone?

Your comments are deleted without ever seeing the light of day and your ip addresses are logged.

Comments

[joreth]

I do screen anonymous posts & I collect ip addresses from anonymous posts. Then, when I've evaluated it for spam (some anonymous posts are from people who just don't have LJ accounts), I delete them and report them. Which means ya'll never see those spam posts because they're never unscreened.

[ximinez]

As much as I like to complain about LJ's ineptitude and bad decsion-making, I'm so very thankful they gave us the "screen anonymous comments" option early on and have stuck with it.