Spamlib?

[randomsome1.livejournal.com]

I posted my thoughts on fanlibdotcom back when things were starting to get messy. Within the past ten days, that post (and that post alone) has been hit with anonymous spammers. The IP addresses are all different and their message is always the same.

I've screened them all (because they piss me off) but took a screencap, if anyone's interested.


Anyone have any idea what may be going on here?


ETA: The spambots were just lost in the time-delayed tubes of the internet, it seems. :)

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

the fuck?

[oconel]

I've been getting spam comments on random posts (mainly old ones) and some of my friends are not allowing anonymous comments any more because of the spam. Maybe it's just spam?

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

I've gotten a bunch of those too, on my post about the FanLib TOS. I think what they do is look for posts that have high traffic and post their spam there, on the theory that it's most likely to be seen on a high-popularity post. My TOS post has gotten more links and references than anything else I've ever posted, by an order of magnitude, and the one that attracted all the spam previously was an older post which also had a couple of off-LJ links, so it seems to fit. It's not FanLib, it's traffic, like putting your billboard alongside a highway rather than in someone's private driveway. :P

Angie

[dragonbat2006.livejournal.com]

Well, that's annoying! You can block anonymous comments in your settings. I was getting a bit of that, though not in the volumes that you are...

[kitesareevil.livejournal.com]

Weird. I thought they would have been routed through an anonymizer, but it wasn't, at least as far as I could find. Looks like they IPs came from the following:
China, Netherlands, Michigan US, Pennsylvania US, Hong Kong, New Jersey US, and Sweden.

[zellieh]

I had the same thing happen. One specific post on my journal attracted a lot of spam comments, and I think it's the high-volume thing, because that post was a story that got a lot of links on places like del.icio.us. I can only assume that some sort of spam-bot found it, or that the URL was added to a list of some kind.

I just ticked the box to 'mark the comments as spam' when I deleted them. It seems to have worked for me, so I didn't need to block anonymous comments, which I didn't really want to do, as that blocks anyone who doesn't have an LJ.

[elf]

I screen anonymous comments so they don't clutter the view, but I don't block them; I want to be open for non-LJ people to comment.

I got some of these on some of my older posts that were linked from my profile. I just deleted them, but I suppose they should be reported to LJ abuse because they seem to be a growing problem, and 6Apart may need to work on developing software to block them.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I got hammered with a bunch of anonymous comments when I exposed a Fanfiction site that was a donation scam. I haven't allowed them since.