Dr. Phil's Policy on Anonymous and Spam Comments

[dr_phil_physics]

I'm A Reasonable Person

I understand that some of my readers, including Mrs. Dr. Phil, don't have LiveJournal accounts or want to mess with using some of the alternative logins via Facebook, etc.

So I do allow Anonymous posting of comments. However, for obvious reasons I have Anonymous comments go straight into the moderation queue, which I usually check at least once or twice a day. In fact, I get notified about all comments to my blog.

However, For Those Of You Who Are Idiots

There are those of you around the whole who wish to abuse my LiveJournal blog, and I have zero tolerance for this. This includes:

(1) Anonymous trolls who want to use my posts to either foment controversy or somehow think they can change my mind with Stupid Troll comments or promote their own Personal Asshattery or want to annoy me.

(2) Anonymous spam bastards who want to use my posts, often one or two years old, to try to insert ads for their various drugs, sex videos, counterfeit clothing, probably diseased websites or web services, or other nefarious, illegal and/or disgusting activities. And I really get upset when you decide you can trash postings of mine that are rather important to me.

Please note that as a Permanent Account holder, I do not puts ads on my LiveJournal -- if you see ads when reading my blog it is because you aren't a logged in paid LJ user who can choose to not see ads. Further, the only commercial promotions that I allow on my LiveJournal blog are either my own writings or things that I find of value that I choose to promote. You, especially Anonymous yous, do not get to override my decisions.

If you fall into either of these Idiot classifications, do us both a favor and don't even bother to post spam or troll crap on my LJ. Because I will delete them, but I will also save copies of your crap and your URL. This also applies to postings which have LiveJournal account names -- these LJ users will be reported to LiveJournal for spam activity.

Sorry To Waste Everyone Else's Time With This

But in the last week I've had to scrub out my moderation queue with twelve items of disgusting spammy content -- some of them from the same people beating their stupid spammy heads against the same unmoving brick wall. It's a waste of my time and I'm sorry if any of this shows up temporarily from illegitimate LJ usernames.

To my friends and family and casual readers of my blog -- glad you're here and I try to reply to all your comments in due course. Thanks.

Dr. Phil

Comments

[selfavowedgeek.livejournal.com]

Mos def.

I've had similar issues the past couple of weeks. Part of me is irked, too, that there has been a serious lag-time between the time someone posts comments and those email notifications show up in my email inbox, which in turn means I could be missing some scrubbing duties of my own on occasion.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Yeah, LJ was reporting there was some sort of delay about notifications. With getting hit with ten times the usual spam rate -- coincidence? One wonders...

Dr. Phil

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

I've been hit with Spam Response to Posts in two Communities... And their attempt at English, to convince me to buy their product, is atrocious!

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

One wonders who actually responds and falls for this crap. I mean, it must make someone some kind of money -- I suppose all you need is a tiny fractional percentage of hits to break even -- but they go to a lot of trouble. And for what? Nothing from me.

Dr. Phil

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

I've had some old - years old - posts get hit with ads and comments recently. I have so few friends that I wonder if it's worth the effort they make to post there.

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

The posts that get hit are either the most recent or are typically 1-2 years old. And as I said to the previous comment, I have no idea how these idiots think this is a viable business model.

As for the low number of hits, I think after several years of this sort of broad spectrum spamming, they can only go into lower traffic areas.

Dr. Phil

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Dear 188.143.232.106,

You have to be all kinds of stupid to put an anonymous spam comment into the moderation queue for my Permanent Post on Stupid Anonymous Spam Comments. Congratulations -- your mother must be so proud that she raised such a maroon.

Dr. Phil