spam problem heads up

[julesjones]

Over the last week I've been getting an increasing amount of spam in the form of anonymous comments on the LJ side. At 2 or 3 a day I can manage by manually deleting, but if it gets much worse I'm probably going to have to close anonymous commenting for a while.

(Since it's LJ-only, mostly in Russian, and a lot of it doesn't seem to have any real payload, my unfounded suspicion is that this is another DoS attack on LJ because some Russian blogger has been making a nuisance of himself to the authorities again.)

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I haven't had any - at least not yet. I wonder what determines which journals get attacked - or is it purely random?

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I had a flurry some time ago and closed anonymous comments. (I can't remember now whether I've reopened them.)

However, I haven't had any for ages, though a post I made to an LJ community did get a spam comment and last week I received one on an older post of mine.

So far, as you say, perfectly manageable, but a little annoying.

[sheenaghpugh]

I was getting that, in fact I think I did close down anon comments.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

This is so weird because I haven't had that issue. Yet.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I get an average of one spam comment a day. My compromise solution (since I don't want to lock down comments entirely) is to require anonymous commenters to complete a captcha (sp?)and to hide comments from anyone not on my flist until/unless approved. So if I don't keep up with deleting them, at least they aren't getting air time and potential link-hits.