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

[clocketpatch]

I've had anonymous posting turned off for ages after getting some lovely troll comments early in my lj career. Though... I've noticed a definite up-swing in the number of spam bots attacking communities lately, especially older communities.

There used to be a community fully devoted to Eleven's Eyebrows which amused me by its existence, but it was deleted after being spammed by porn bots. Porn bots were very quickly deleted once lj was informed (I think the fact they were posting their graphic and disturbing images to homework help comms probably helped with the speedy removal of ARGH! ARGH! NOOO!!!).

I don't think they're quite so quick on the designer bags and shoes though...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm fortunate in that I've never had anyone come troll me on my journal. If I had, I'd probably have stopped anonymous comments a long time ago -- and perhaps locked the whole thing up, too.

And wow, porn spam with images? On homework help comms?? Suddenly the designer bag spam doesn't seem so bad.