Looks like we need our carpets cleaned!

[azurelunatic]

It looks like Dreamwidth needs our carpets cleaned, because a couple registered user spammers have gone and tracked their links all over! Keep those reports coming so the Terms of Service team can do their walloping.

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[jumpuphigh]

Do you need more spam-whackers?

[azurelunatic]

I think we're OK for now. It looks like a single campaign, possibly even with a human doing it rather than a bot. So far the spamwhackers have seen 2 accounts connected to this, and have turned them over to the Terms of Service team for investigation and whacking.

[jumpuphigh]

Ok. If in the future, you need more whackers, keep me in mind. I don't guarantee spoon availability but if I have it, I'll give it. :D

[dee_burris]

Had four spam comments this morning on my journal and deleted all as spam. The commenter was anonymous.

[azurelunatic]

Thanks for turning those in!

[dee_burris]

Just turned in two more - different IP addresses.

[azurelunatic]

*nod*

A standard spammer procedure is to single out a few entries on a single journal and then barrage them with uniquely identifiable spam from different IP addresses and see what goes through and sticks around long enough to be picked up by search engines, so they know where the soft targets are.

After strafing somebody with ~10-20 pieces of spam over the course of a few days, they tend to move on to some other unlucky party.

If it's feasible for you to temporarily turn off anonymous commenting for a few days, that's one way to repel them.