valady in 07refugees
Paranoia run rampant or... ???
Have you recently had Russian LJ'ers friending you? I've noticed that the last 3 of 5 new people who have friended me are Russian. Now I have no problem with someone friending me Russian or whatever else, but looking over their profiles there are NO common interest. The journals are all in Russian so I can't read them. Am I being paranoid or does this reek of something????
denyce
kabal42
Also, this person had friended 143 people and only 11 had friended back. Of the people friended I saw 4 that I have on my flist as well. All Potterfans and all from my neck of the waters (Northern Europe - more precise Scandinavia and Germany).
This is terribly odd!
valady
clare_dragonfly
OT
kabal42
Re: OT
rachel_martin64
Yes, this happened to me over on LJ. A person who posts only in Cyrillic friended my journal, then de-friended me. It was very odd.
aristoboule
I had to use the icon!
So, my solution has been this: friend them back, but with sexytime_borat for the lulz, and comment with some randomly copied Russian text out of their journal. Or talk about Kazakhstan, either/or. ;D
valady
Re: I had to use the icon!
firefly124
valady
jackandahat
firefly124
hphaeton
On LJ it's even more restricted, only my friends can post comments on my journal. And since I don't friend anyone back since I left...
firefly124
kitsune_wolf
It fixed the problem for me.
firefly124
ladybelz
valady
ladybelz
kabal42
kabal42
ladybelz
hphaeton
a) I can't read their journals
b) I haven't friended them back and they still list me as a friend, even though I haven't posted in a year and all three unlocked entries deal with me leaving LJ.
Why are they still there?
valady
moriath
hphaeton
I'd have no problem if they followed over to IJ and once in a while left a comment in English, even if they kept posting in Russion only in their journals.
But friending my LJ is totally useless.
valady
scorpio
fionnulaharp
elmyraemilie
Perhaps it's what's on the interest list on your LJ that draws these "new friends."
kabal42
But fandom people keep adding it, too *S* I wonder why sometimes, even though it is flattering.
randomsome1
Both times they commented with near-gibberish on my anti-Lj posts.
I know you can leave lj-toys markers in posts. What's the possibility this is a post-&-traffic tracking deal?
scarydorable
tribal_tiger
no common interests. i haven't posted in months, at least.
this person belongs to the group "ru_add_me"
same with all yours?
valady
avialle
valady
I don't know if this is some kind of game, trolls or moles.
avialle
shalanar
The first one, I didn't think anything of (though I did ban_set them), but the one today, I checked their profile, and they've friended a lot of my friends who also don't really write fanfic, but are friends with a lot of fanfic writers. Oddly, none of those people were friended.
Eh, I ban_set them, and my LJ is completely FO. It is weird though...
ryhasso
Now, however, I don't know. It definitely looks odd.
elwing_alcyone
andreth_47
Here via metafandom
It's bizarre as hell.
valady
Re: Here via metafandom
andreth_47
Known Issue
http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/r
It's a known issue, about which LJ is doing...well, not much. *shrugs*
valady
Re: Known Issue
nympholept.livejournal.com
Well, you may be, but you're also right.
Those russians are bots.
Livejournal Abuse will now suspend them if you report them.
More information:
http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/ru
Please spread the word about what to do about them.
valady