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

[the-failed-poet.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I get those on a bunch of my old posts. If I still used my LJ for anything but reading other people's blogs I'd be righteously pissed.

[ellindsey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been getting those too. Pretty sure it's a bot.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

The sheer tedium of deleting 5-10 spam comments a day caused me to investigate the posting settings.

If you don't mind inconveniencing anonymous commenters, you can require an LJ handle to post comments, or at least auto-screen them so you don't have to manually delete them.

[petite-lambda.livejournal.com]

One thing I still haven't figured out are the obviously spam comments (generic compliment on an old post) but *without* the spam link. A bug in the spamming software?
Do you get these, too?