spam control: anonymous commenting no longer allowed

[dbskyler]

I've allowed anonymous comments (with initial screening) on my journal since the beginning. I think it's kind of nice, it goes with an open journal (which this mostly is), and a few anonymous commenters have dropped in and said interesting and/or relevant things, which I've appreciated.

Unfortunately, there's been a huge uptick in anonymous spam lately, to the point where I am getting very tired of continuously deleting it. So until further notice, I have disabled anonymous commenting in this journal.

Sorry to the anonymous commenters who are actually commenting. Hopefully this won't be a permanent situation, but it will depend on whether LJ gets a handle on this problem or not.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well, some of the longer-term LJ users actually suggested that the 'mom' was a rabid Rosefen. I don't know if that's true or not, but I did have some actual Martha-haters trolling my LJ.

And yes, I laugh about that mom now, but at the time I was pretty upset because I was very new to LJ and fandom in general.