Question?

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Anyone getting hit with spam/comments? I've gotten a bunch today, same message but different user names. Deleted and reported as spam, changed my settings and password. Not much else to do I guess.

Comments

[carabele.livejournal.com]

I had it happening a couple of weeks ago as well.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

The comments are only to some of my posts on Section 7.... I remember your comment about them and redoing some settings a few weeks ago.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but those settings didn't help much with comments because those commenters are registered members of lj. I don't want to make the community open only to members for comments as that kind of defeats the purpose of fanfic being posted to the site.

If it is one (or two) particular entries that are being spammed and if that or those is/are old entries, you can lock the entry to further comments. Did that with the one entry of mine on section7mfu. Apparently whatever way they are finding the entries to comment upon is being targeted by some kind of word finder or such. So certain words, even though used in an entirely innocent context, will trigger the comment getting posted to the entry. Locking the entry to further comments leaves the existing comments in place, but doesn't allow any further ones to be added. So that defeats their search engine thing, since the targeted entry can't be commented on any longer.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

It's been on several of my older entries to Secion 7, and hasn't been the same one hit. It's been different ones each time. Will try locking a few of my entries to see what happens.