Just a quick note about comment settings

[dolorosa_12]

Unfortunately, due to a large influx of spam comments, I've had to upgrade the security with regards to commenting. I've continued to enable anonymous commenting, as some of my best commenters (hello Jordan! hello Catie!) don't have LJ accounts. Unfortunately, however, anonymous commenters will now have more security hoops through which to jump: you'll have to use CAPTCHA and your comments will be screened.

I'm sorry about that, but it's quite annoying to have to go through my blog and delete spam comments all the time, so this is what I've had to do. I hope it fixes the problem, but if not I may have to ban anonymous commenting altogether.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I had to do that on my blog too... Stupid spammers! But fortunately it seems to have worked *crosses fingers*

- Catie

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it worked for you. *crosses own fingers*

[verschreibsel.livejournal.com]

I should do that. I've been getting a lot of spam on my public entries :/

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I don't know how well it's going to work, but I guess I should at least try.

[verschreibsel.livejournal.com]

Yeah I disabled anon commenting today. We'll see.

Spam is annoying

[jordan rastrick (from livejournal.com)]

Although I'm surprised LJ's filters don't do a better job catching it for you.

But I'll start commenting using my facebook account or Open ID; not too much hassle for me and hopefully helps you with the anonymous spam issue.

Re: Spam is annoying

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I don't even know if LJ has filters. Wordpress uses Askimet and catches basically everything (and in any case the first time someone comments from a particular IP, I have to approve it), but I'm not sure about LJ's filters. I've only started having problems in the past few weeks.

Thanks for switching to Facebook or Open ID, though, that's very helpful.

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

I had my first spam comment yesterday (on my icons journal) and the email freaked me out - I couldn't work out at first if it was a genuine, although spam-y comment or a spam email which then might have contained a virus. Grrh.

[dolorosa-12.livejournal.com]

I think they're just spammy comments, rather than viruses, but be careful about opening your notifications, in any case.