Change to Livejournal comment settings

[firecat]

Once was funny, but ten times a day is fucked up.

I'm getting so much comment spam on Livejournal that I need to entirely turn off comments for people not on my friends list there.

If you aren't on my LJ friends list and you want to comment, your options are:
--Add me to your friends list; I will reciprocate if you appear to have a legitimate interest in my journal.
--Comment on Dreamwidth. On Dreamwidth I allow comments from any registered user, although I screen comments from people not on my access list. You can comment on my DW journal using OpenID or you can get a free account (http://www.dreamwidth.org/).

Comments

[elainegrey]

I finally got the crush-on-you spam.

Sigh. Spammers. I used to hunt them down and write the ISP of any URL they linked to and attempt to let any open email relays know that they were supporting spam.

Grumble. Get offa my lawn!

[elf]

I got the crush spam today.

Not only can I no longer comment on LJ, I can't even react to comments on my posts--can't mark them as spam, can't screen, can't delete. Their new javascript update and my browser/computer are incompatible.

I need to go through my journal, delete the contents of each post & replace with a link to the DW import, and shut off comments.

[kshandra]

I think you can just update your crosspost settings to disallow LJ comments, then open the entries on the DW side and re-save them to shut off the comments (though you can't delete the content of the original post that way).

[icarus]

Yeaah, I'm getting a small amount of spamage on LJ. More than in the past, though not as bad as yours.

[eggcrack]

I don't remember my exact comment settings, but I've noticed that spam seems to come with posts I've made to other communities. Anyway, your approach to spam is just about perfect. Ir's be better if such approach wasn't necessary, of course. (Why so hard to like, LJ? :\ )

[ladythmpr.livejournal.com]

I haven't had any spam as such. But I've had a huge number of invisible guests in the past few days. (I've also had one very strange anonymous comment on my bio post.) The only community I have in common with any of the visible guests is hip_domestics, but I haven't posted or commented there in a while, so I wonder what has caused the influx. Maybe I've just come up more frequently in the random-journal-to-read search, or something.