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Pinged by spam journals
Sorry for the disappearing act yesterday.
I am having a meeting-licious week, which apparently includes surprise meetings that spring up 15 minutes before I'm due to run into them.
No, I'm not in trouble. Just hopping busy.
Anyway, FYI, over the past 24 hours I've ended up banning what appears to be 8 12 18 20 "spam journals" that have left nonsense replies to some old posts from roughly a year ago.
Side note: Suddenly, I'm really, really, really glad that I've banned anonymous commenting. I shudder to think just how bad this could be if it was still allowed.
Anyway, I'm dealing with the spam journals as they pop up. While I'm very sure I haven't banned any real people, if you are a real person and have found yourself banned from commenting, ping me and I'll unban you.
I might look at your user name funny considering the weirdness of some of the spamming, but I will unban you.
ETA:
It should be noted that the comments the spam journals leave behind are odd, but not necessarily anything that stands out as particularly inappropriate.
It isn't until you check the journals themselves that the wrongness comes into play. All of the spam journals have no "friends," and consist of a single post that, on the surface, seems to be talking about health care or the economy. However, if you try to read that post you realize that it's complete gibebrish.
Also, this single post seems to have the same set of tags at the end of the single post. Almost all tags are sexually explicit in nature, with a particular focus on either gay sex or underage sex.
Just FYI...
ETA2:
By request, I'm providing 17 out of 20 of the banned journals. Amazingly enough, 3 of the journals I've banned and reported as spam journals have already been suspended, so there's no point in presenting them here.
Here be my blacklist so you can preemptively ban the little darlings for yourselves:
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barneyy08 (this one doesn't have any entries at all)
jorel08 (this one doesn't have any entries at all)
kellyqubym
juliaqygak
kristenywida
katyrytod
candycugiz
victoriabekij
juditiqale
colleeneguha
heidelykiwo
sarakumit
adriannahuqax
colleenitage
celestiatevuh
paulaqiguz
zsuzannapivyx
ETA3:
I've been reliably informed bykokuten that the the words that look like LJ tags at the bottom of the single post are actually off-site links.
I am having a meeting-licious week, which apparently includes surprise meetings that spring up 15 minutes before I'm due to run into them.
No, I'm not in trouble. Just hopping busy.
Anyway, FYI, over the past 24 hours I've ended up banning what appears to be
Side note: Suddenly, I'm really, really, really glad that I've banned anonymous commenting. I shudder to think just how bad this could be if it was still allowed.
Anyway, I'm dealing with the spam journals as they pop up. While I'm very sure I haven't banned any real people, if you are a real person and have found yourself banned from commenting, ping me and I'll unban you.
I might look at your user name funny considering the weirdness of some of the spamming, but I will unban you.
ETA:
It should be noted that the comments the spam journals leave behind are odd, but not necessarily anything that stands out as particularly inappropriate.
It isn't until you check the journals themselves that the wrongness comes into play. All of the spam journals have no "friends," and consist of a single post that, on the surface, seems to be talking about health care or the economy. However, if you try to read that post you realize that it's complete gibebrish.
Also, this single post seems to have the same set of tags at the end of the single post. Almost all tags are sexually explicit in nature, with a particular focus on either gay sex or underage sex.
Just FYI...
ETA2:
By request, I'm providing 17 out of 20 of the banned journals. Amazingly enough, 3 of the journals I've banned and reported as spam journals have already been suspended, so there's no point in presenting them here.
Here be my blacklist so you can preemptively ban the little darlings for yourselves:
barneyy08 (this one doesn't have any entries at all)jorel08 (this one doesn't have any entries at all)kellyqubymjuliaqygakkristenywidakatyrytodcandycugizvictoriabekijjuditiqalecolleeneguhaheidelykiwosarakumitadriannahuqaxcolleenitagecelestiatevuhpaulaqiguzzsuzannapivyxETA3:
I've been reliably informed by
kokuten that the the words that look like LJ tags at the bottom of the single post are actually off-site links.
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I can't remember which group or user inspired me to look over your profile, but there were added mutual interests,....
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As you can tell, I'm pretty suck-tastic at administering this LJ. Heee!
But, seriously, I recognize your name from seeing you comment and I'm pretty sure we're on some similar comms, too.
I added an ETA to explain the form these spam journals take, so you're definitely safe. :-)
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Come on back to check out the list. Three of the journals I reported as spam journals have already been deleted.
There are still 15 for you to ban, though.
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And they do have some rather nasty links, don't they?
And like another poster said, what's the point? I'm glad that I do not permit anonymous posts or posts from non-members on my journal, either. After some early encounters with some really creepy replies, I made sure that was done.
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Ironically enough, they came in just as someone on my FList
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Go to the admin console: http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console
Enter the following in the text box:
ban_set name1
ban_set name2
ban_set name3
etc., each on a separate line.
Then hit execute, and voila.
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I've also edited my entry to include the LJ list so you can preemptively ban the accounts for yourself.
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I'm not entirely sure what it was about their comments (aside from the fact they all appeared on some old journals) that pinged my radar hard enough that I decided to check on their profiles.
Seriously, though. I'm not sure where I get the purpose, because there are actually no links at all with the spam journals. I'm somewhat at a loss.
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Tangential
~M~
..I get one of the bot LJ's every six weeks or so..
Re: Tangential
Over the past 24 hours, I've been getting pinged like crazy.
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It'll show all your recent comments, as well as the most recent comments you've made.
There's an option that'll show you up to 100 of the most recent comments either way.
In fact, using this tool is how I spotted the weird pattern.
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Livejournal's infrastructure is such as to almost encourage this sort of nonsense. (And don't even get me started on their site-wide feeds for ALL content.) I suspect the reason Livejournal doesn't have more spam is that Myspace and Facebook are bigger targets.
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I'm not sure they're violating the TOS.
Posting gibberish & a link farm isn't against the TOS, and while there's a rule against commercial activity, that's never been interpreted as "post links to sites with paid membership/services." Posting a random, off-topic comment in someone's journal is also not against the TOS.
Maybe they're counting the links as "posting a link to content that can't be hosted on LJ?"
I assume there are, and will be, more of them, because there's no way to phrase a TOS that doesn't allow them, but does allow random newbies with limited interests. (I note that invite codes would keep them entirely out.)
I have anon comments screened, not blocked. Haven't gotten any. But I also have no recent journal entries; maybe that makes a difference? Or maybe it's because my journal's bot-blocked?
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