Lord, but they are persistent

[pecunium]

I've deleted/banned/reported as spam, about ten comments in the past hour. They are template blogs of some sort of SEO scam. Two of the used the same comment.

It was to two posts. I suspect it's linked, in some way, to a timeline, because both posts being spammed are about a month old.

And here I thought, briefly, people were going back to older posts.

No such luck.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm getting comments like that, too, on a silly post about ants.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I've been friends-locking all my posts after 30 days. I might trim that down to 15.

I've banned and reported two spam-blogs today.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Call me vain, but I write to be read, so locking things seems to be a cross between hypocritical/counterproductive.

Sometimes I get interesting replies, as someone finds me from some oddball link I never knew of.

But three more when I logged in today.

Frustrated by a mere three blogspam comments?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry: I have to laugh. The spam filter that I run (Akismet) catches around 200 comments and trackbacks every day. Since I installed it, years ago, it has snagged over 85,000 blogspam items. I don't know how many false positives it gets; when I think that a particular posting is going to be widely read, I'll review the logs to see if I need to "un-spam" anything, but otherwise I just blast them all. The mix seems to be 60% porn, 20% pills, 10% financial, and 10% in Cyrillic (WTF?).

Geoff

Re: Frustrated by a mere three blogspam comments?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Livejournal is a little different, since the spammers have to create a Livejournal account. I am not complaining about the thousand odd pieces of non-account owner spam I've gotten. The system traps them.

These, however, I have to manually removed, ban; and report as spam.

The Russian spam is actually part of a scam. I forget the details, but recently posted about it elsewhere. I'll try to rustle them up for you.