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Are you getting more spam comments than usual?

Jan. 9th, 2011 at 10:42 AM

Since the beginning of December, I've noticed a definite increase in the number of spam comments I get here. Not so many as to cause a problem, but where I used to get 3 or 4 in any given month, I now seem to get 4 or 5 a week - I had 3 of them just this morning.

They range from links to websites offering cheap jewelry/shoes etc. to foriegn language comments (most of which I can't read) which have no links, to nonsense comments which make no sense whatsoever.

Anyone else noticed an uptick in the amount of spam comments they've been getting?

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madshutterbug

Jan. 9th, 2011 03:48 pm (UTC)

I'm saying yes, even though my count is lower than yours. Also with one this morning, as a comment to a post made last November.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:12 pm (UTC)

It's weird how most of the spam gets added to posts from months back. Spammers clearly don't know much about blog-reading habits.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 03:49 pm (UTC)

I had a few and reported them for spam.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:13 pm (UTC)

I do if I know for sure it's spam. If it's spam from an LJ account, I ban the user too. A lot of the foreign language ones I can't understand, so I just delete them.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 03:56 pm (UTC)

I don't think I've ever gotten a spam comment, but I've noticed some spam (including a russian porn ad!) popping up in my communities.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:14 pm (UTC)

It's the random-word-generated ones I don't understand. What's the point of those?

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:22 pm (UTC)

I started getting 3 or 4 a month a couple of months agop. No increase yet. No matter what language they're in, I banish them.

"Begone!"

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:35 pm (UTC)

"Get thee behind me, spam!" :)

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:30 pm (UTC)

Yep. I presume that the spammers have found methods of defeating the login and account creation processes. I suppose it's only a matter of time before they flood other sites as well.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:35 pm (UTC)

I wonder if anyone actually buys something or visits a site as a result of spam. I know I don't, as a matter of principal.

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mtlawson - Jan. 9th, 2011 06:30 pm (UTC) - Expand

Jan. 9th, 2011 04:35 pm (UTC)

Jon, I am on facebook and Twitter but this is my account for friends and only my friends know who I am here. If someone friends me out of the blue I go look them up and only friend them back if there is a connection.

Foreign language messages get reported as spam as I haven't indicated on my profile that I can speak any. Sales of stuff also get reported. Now I have a paid account I will be making things a tad tighter.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 04:40 pm (UTC)

'Only my friends know I am here'

Sad to say, but they really don't. Spammers have all manner of ways of finding folks. As for friending, I'm the same as you. I always check that folks are real before friending them back.

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blood_of_winter

Jan. 9th, 2011 04:50 pm (UTC)

Yes. I never used to get spam but Im getting about 3 a week mostly in languages I dont know.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:36 pm (UTC)

I suppose we'll have to put up with it, but it's a little annoying.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 05:18 pm (UTC)

Yes, usually only one spam per two months or so. And in the past two days it was suddenly five. Still not a real problem, but a definite increase

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:37 pm (UTC)

Hopefully, it'll go back down again soon.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 05:24 pm (UTC)

There are always lots. I just leave them screened and ignore them.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:37 pm (UTC)

Best thing for them, I'd say :)

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hildebabble

Jan. 9th, 2011 07:26 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I've been seeing an increase recently. And I've been seeing some seriously NSFW hijack ads in communities I follow, too.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:38 pm (UTC)

I haven't noticed a problem on communities yet, though I've long since disabled them on the blog at FindAWritingGroup.com

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:40 pm (UTC)

Yes.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:46 pm (UTC)

At least all this talk of spam has reminded me of that Monty Python song, so it's not all bad :)

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celestialgldfsh

Jan. 9th, 2011 07:42 pm (UTC)

I've seen an increase as well. Most of mine are in odd English, though one was in Russian. Several communities I follow have been hit by spam that includes nudity or outright pornography.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 07:49 pm (UTC)

I get a lot of weird comments in Russian, English or (what looks like) Chinese which a: have no link, so I don't know why they bothered, and b: make no sense (though part of the problem with the Russian and Chinese ones making no sense is I can't speak either language ;)

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Jan. 9th, 2011 08:05 pm (UTC)

I started getting spam about six months ago, generally when I post about any current event or pop culture stuff. It's generally anonymous bots so I screen for anon comments, sometimes five or six comments on a single entry. I have gotten a few lj-bot comments and have banned the usernames. So far it's not out of hand but it's annoying.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 09:46 pm (UTC)

Same here. It's usually when the post is about TV shows or the like.

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incandragon

Jan. 9th, 2011 08:59 pm (UTC)

Small uptic. From maybe 1 a year to maybe 1 a quarter.

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Jan. 9th, 2011 09:49 pm (UTC)

1 a quarter's not too bad :)

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Jan. 9th, 2011 09:36 pm (UTC)

Maybe one a month.

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