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.
I figured the ability to track a user's behavior in real time across many blogs would give LiveJournal an edge in quickly identifying and removing spam accounts, but apparently that's either not the case or lj is not doing as well as it could. Spammer behavior seems very obvious to me -- a new user quickly making large numbers of comments on different blogs in completely disparate social networks with links to low reputation sites in each one seems like it wouldn't be that hard to detect.
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mattbell
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Re: It's the same elsewhere
Date: 2011-02-01 04:05 am (UTC)I figured the ability to track a user's behavior in real time across many blogs would give LiveJournal an edge in quickly identifying and removing spam accounts, but apparently that's either not the case or lj is not doing as well as it could. Spammer behavior seems very obvious to me -- a new user quickly making large numbers of comments on different blogs in completely disparate social networks with links to low reputation sites in each one seems like it wouldn't be that hard to detect.