[info]valady in [info]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????
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Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 at 01:15 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]firefly124

I've had that happen a few times, both on IJ and LJ. That hasn't bothered me, though the random spam comments that I've been getting (in both English and Russian, mainly on IJ) are starting to drive me up a wall.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 01:32 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]valady

I haven't had any comments made yet but I don't post often on LJ and even when I do it's usualy f-locked.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 01:39 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]jackandahat

You too? I had an open post because it was about the LJ Pepsi thing, and it's been linked to somewhere, and I was getting three or four comments a day, random spam.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 02:14 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]firefly124

One of my fic posts from last year was getting lots of spam comments, so I set it to no comments. Now they hit whatever my most recent comment happens to be. Only here on IJ though.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 03:34 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]hphaeton

Are those spam comments anonymous? I wonder, because my comment options are very restricted. I only allow registered users to comment and I save their IP address, too.

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...
Posted on Jul. 27th, 2008 04:53 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]firefly124

I don't want to lock commenting down too hard, though. The furthest I'm willing to go is to have anonymous or non-friend comments screened, which, of course, doesn't actually stop them leaving the comments, just means they won't show up unless I unscreen instead of delete them.
Posted on Jul. 27th, 2008 06:10 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]kitsune_wolf

I was getting that on one post. Since no one else had commented on that post, I deleated it and reposted it back dated so it all looked the same but had a diffrent URL.

It fixed the problem for me.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 03:06 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]firefly124

I shut off comments to it. Now I'm getting the comments to whatever my most recent IJ post is pretty much daily. I delete them and mark them as spam, for all the good that appears to do.
Posted on Jul. 26th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply