Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Eggs and Spam

[morgan_dhu]

I hate spam. I know I am not alone in this, but I just thought I'd mention it anyway.

I bring this up today because I have been getting inordinate numbers of anonymous comments on old posts from people who want to sell me penis enlargement products, all sorts of magical cures for everything from hair loss to erectile dysfunction, and hot stock tips, among other bizarre offerings.

None of these things interest me. But I'm really getting tired of deleting these sales pitches from my journal. So, if there's anyone out there reading this who does not have a LiveJournal account, I have reluctantly disabled anonymous commenting. Sorry. If there's anyone out there in this position who ever does get the hankering to make a comment, you're free to email me (see my user profile) and if you want, I'll post your comment for you so anyone else reading can respond to it in my LJ.

What I hate worse than spam is having to implement anything that smacks of censorship in order to avoid the hassle of deleting spam on top of spam on top of spam.

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

There's another thing you can do: you can filter anonymous posts. That way, if any of them are legit, all you have to do is approve them. And if they're spam, you can leave them invisible in your filter. That's how I've set up my LJ.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

I thought about that, but since I get very few legitimate anonymous posts, and since I just don't want to deal with the spam at all, I'm trying this for now. If it turns out that all of a sudden, lots of non-LJ users suddenly want to comment on my stuff, than I might try out filtering instead. It's just that I don't even want to have to read them in order to approve or deny them - I just want them to go away.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. I might end up going that route in the future.