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

[svetlanacat4.livejournal.com]

I had this two weeks ago... Just deleted and reported as spam...

[carabele.livejournal.com]

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

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

another person on my flist just quit LJ because she said the spam was just too much.

I haven't seen any on my LJ. I have a permanent account and don't see ads either.

The last time I remembered weird spam, they were comments in Russian. Is that happening now?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

People are spamming with links to a product or page. Just report it and delete it, it's not personal. A few of them are lj users, for this purpose only probably, and many are anonymous. If you filter your comments to not accept anonymous they won't get past that.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

No these aren't anonymous, they all have different user names with the same creepy message and link. I'd never click on a link as I know better and just deleted and reported as spam. I also changed my settings for now.

I was just curious to see if anyone else is getting hit on Section 7.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

These are in English and look like they're for some sort of dating site...I suspect Russian too. I just changed my settings will see if that helps. Glad you got your power back.

The first of the refugees just moved into our apartment complex, a councilman from Union Beach. His house was damaged badly, but not destroyed.

[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.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

That I did, was just curious if anyone else was getting bombarded.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I've deleted about a half dozen or so that came through with some kind of link and were posted here on this comm. One or two of them have accounts on lj, and are using the site to promote business ops of some sort. If it came in on section7 then it isn't related to your page, I don't think. But, settings changed may help.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Okay then I'm not the only one seeing them. Hopefully if reported, LJ might be able to do something, but since they're all been registered user names, even if LJ deletes the accounts, the spammers will only use new one.

[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.