disabling anonymous comments

[incandescens]

I regret that I am disabling anonymous comments on this lj. I have been getting a ridiculous amount of anonymous spam. Still, I don't tend to get many genuine ones, so I hope that nobody will be inconvenienced.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The spammers seem to be hitting the British Isles heavily this go-round. I don't get anonymous spam over here. I get spam from people who've evidently set up LJs for the sole purpose of spamming.

[incandescens]

I've had a couple of those, but mostly it was anonymous advertisements. Bah.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Anonymous comments are dirty pool, as far as I'm concerned. If you're gonna make a comment on someone's blog, at least own up to it.

[incandescens]

Well, I have had a couple of comments in the past from people who simply didn't have livejournals of their own.

But I've been getting half a dozen spam comments per day. Or more. And I'm fed up.

[rfrancis]

I've been getting some spam comments, yeah. Mostly LJ has been correctly identifying them as spam, but not always. I'm not sure why I allow anonymous, or even non-friends, comments, really. My LJ is pretty personal and I friendslock a lot.

[incandescens]

It's very irritating.

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

I've been getting a few spam comments on fanfics I've written (all in the Get Backers communities); they're not anonymous, but spam *journals* it looks like. And they always stick in links (to viruses or something, no doubt).

Hates them with the fire of a million and two suns, we does. >:/

[incandescens]

Most irritating, they are.