Tell me, oh LiveJournal...

[shewhomust]

One of my old entries has been attracting odd comments; it's a piece I wrote last March about LJ's charging structure. The comments aren't identical, and they aren't link spam, but they are all anonymous, and they all say something like "well done, dude". Must be spam, right? Not that I object to people agreeing with me, but still...

I delete the comment, and a little later it's re-posted.

So tell me, LJ, can I block anonymous comments on that one entry? I see how to block all comments, but then the previous comments disappear, and they are relevant and helpful to the discussion, so I don't want that). Currently I've set it to screen anonymous comments - is that the nearest equivalent to blocking them?

And does anyone know what is going on here?

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Yes, screening is the best way to do it.

My guess to that sort of post is that they're spammers looking for active moderation on blogs, with the aim of finding ones that don't block them, and then hitting them with link spam shortly afterwards...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Yes, that was the best explanation I could think of. It isn't entirely satisfying - I might let these cryptic comments stand, after all, but still delete the linky ones - but perhaps I just don't think like a spammer.

Like the icon, by the way - and you have every right to it!

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

The icon is also a reference to my favourite Yes album (and of course to the second less well known Buggles album, too).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Less well known to whom...?

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Sadly it seems to most of the world. Which is a pity, as there are some sublime tracks on "Adventures in Modern Recording", from the Ballard-influenced "Vermillion Sands" to (my favourite) "(Waiting for) The Rainbow Warrior".

Time to listen to it again.

And yes, I am the heretic who thinks "Drama" is one of the best things Yes ever did...

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

You can block or screen comments on that entry. (And later could go back and change that, if you want, if the spammer has gone away.)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Alas, the spammer doesn't seem to go away - but thanks, anyway!