tea berry-blue

I just sent this message to LJ:

Hi there! I have been a loyal paid LJ user for nearly ten years and I have always been delighted with your service and the wonderful community you have supported- so delighted that I registered for a permanent account nearly four years ago.

However, I have noticed a severe and sharp uptick in spam in the past two or three months. Before the beginning of this year, I rarely received spam comments-- I would get only a few spam comments a year. In the past few months, I have suddenly started getting many spam comments per week, sometimes as many as four or five a day. It has forced me to apply comment screening for anonymous commenters on my journal, but even then, many of the spam comments come from registered users, and it has really forced me to spend a lot more time moderating my journal. This is extremely frustrating and is the first time I have felt that the quality of my LJ experience has been compromised enough that I would consider taking my business to another service. I would certainly hate to do that because LJ has been my home on the internet for many years.

I've heard from friends that they have been receiving a similar uptick in spam, so it is not just me. I wanted to know if you are already doing something to combat it, or if it is on your development schedule. Please, please look into adding a spam blocker to LJ, something like Akismet or Bad Behavior. I have a personal blog as well and my personal blog receives many more spam comments than LJ, but the Akismet spam blocker catches nearly all of them. I would even be happy if paid and permanent account members were given the ability to just use the Akismet spam blocker voluntarily on LJ.

Thanks very much!

Today, I got spam mail from Lickness Villaneda.

Apart from trying to sell me 'brand new sexual sensattions,' Lickness tells me:

( the wisdom of Lickness )

Which...sounds kinda spooky, actually. I'm sort of tempted to illustrate it.

ANYWAY, I love my job. Today I interviewed WillyMJ, who draws Eekeemoo, and the fabulous erikamoen, with whom I just wanted to keep chit-chatting :-P Hi, Erika! Everyone is so awesomely awesome.

Also, TV studios? Stop being all "NEW SHOWS IN APRIL" and then not showing the shows I WANT TO SEE NEW OF. YOU ALL SUCK.

I kind of dropped the ball on drawing every day. I will try to be better. I did, however, send mail to much_reality and rattsu.

ETA HOLY SHIT. No sooner do I post this, then I get more communication from the intrepid Fisherman Garden.

I swear I am going to name my children after spammails.

( note following )

Today, I got spam mail from Lickness Villaneda.

Apart from trying to sell me 'brand new sexual sensattions,' Lickness tells me:

( the wisdom of Lickness )

Which...sounds kinda spooky, actually. I'm sort of tempted to illustrate it.

ANYWAY, I love my job. Today I interviewed WillyMJ, who draws Eekeemoo, and the fabulous erikamoen, with whom I just wanted to keep chit-chatting :-P Hi, Erika! Everyone is so awesomely awesome.

Also, TV studios? Stop being all "NEW SHOWS IN APRIL" and then not showing the shows I WANT TO SEE NEW OF. YOU ALL SUCK.

I kind of dropped the ball on drawing every day. I will try to be better. I did, however, send mail to much_reality and rattsu.

ETA HOLY SHIT. No sooner do I post this, then I get more communication from the intrepid Fisherman Garden.

I swear I am going to name my children after spammails.

( note following )

I got back to New York to discover TWO overseas packages waiting for me.

One, from crazy_megan was FULL OF CHOCOLATE. BEAUTIFUL SWEDISH CHOCOLATE.

The other, from seori, was FULL OF LAST YEAR'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Which was a kangaroo's nutsack.

No, I'm serious. A kangaroo's nutsack.



Plus a Christmas card from one of her RP characters to one of mine!

I have the best friends ever.

In other news, I got the following email today:


Subject: Hello to my dearest friend.
From: "confidence confidence" <confidence4_44@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, November 26, 2007 2:42 pm
To: info@whois-help.info
Priority: Normal
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Hi dear,
how are you today i hope that every things is ok with you as it is my great
pleassure to contact you in having communication with you, please i wish you will
have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better and see what
happened in future.
i will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication
and to know all about each other, and also give you my pictures and details about
me, here is my email (confidence_jj@yahoo.com) i will be waiting to hear from you as
i wish you all the best for your day.
your new friend.
Miss confidence


I think we should all email Miss Confidence and tell her how much we want to be her friend!