Spamwidth!

[tyggerjai]

And so it begins. I've suddenly started getting anonymous comments on a few conspicuous dreamwidth entries here and on my tyggerdev journal. Same pattern - the title is gibberish ("LFhAUqOJmAneg" or "PphOHwLINjHAxWAvK", for example), and the body is a sentence or so of apparently positive technically oriented feedback with one conspicuously mis-spelled word. Anyone else seeing this?

Guess it's time to disable anonymous commenting, but since there seems to be no attempt to add a link or sell me anything - anyone have insight as to the point of such comments?

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[exor674]

http://dw-antispam.dreamwidth.org/49891.html explains it well enough.

Indeed it does.

[tyggerjai]

Thanks for that! I'll go ahead and spam-whack them and see how it goes. Trouble is, apparently there are still friends of mine on LJ who comment anonymously here for whatever reason, but they are becoming fewer and fewer...

Re: Indeed it does.

[exor674]

You can always turn on captcha for anonymous, if that's an option for your friends. Should prevent most spam campaigns.