Dear Livejournal: Spammers are going to kill your business.

[mattbell]

I am tired of Russian spammers getting lj accounts and then using them to make comments on my blog.  I really should not have to remove 2-3 per day.  I don't want to restrict comments to friends only.  

Comments

[sarcazm.livejournal.com]

that was also one of my biggest complaints when the merger was first taking place, before the spamming even became an issue. i just remember what had happened with orkut, and subsequently killed orkut. i'm on lockdown so i don't have to deal with it personally so much, except for the random screwed up friend adds, and the communities i'm in being spammed. but still, it's like lj should have a much better handle on the spambot issue at this point, since the merger took place years ago and the problem hasn't gone away.

;)

[divergio.livejournal.com]

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[radven.livejournal.com]

Indeed - it seems to have gotten vastly worse recently too. I am needing to delete several spam comments to ancient posts a day, and it is getting very very old. *grrr*

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

I especially hate the sly marquee hides that mask themselves as "Ooh, very interesting!" comments.

It's the same elsewhere

[brad-templeton.livejournal.com]

I get fake spam comments on my blog all the time, and it is not LJ. They pay somebody who answers the Turing question, and then from time to time I have even seen real, meaningful comments -- not stellar, but not just copied from other comments and the posting as you also see -- but with spam in them. All this in spite of the fact that the comment page says there is nofollow on all links so that search engines will ignore them.