Blocking Anonymous comments on this journal, for now.

[capri0mni]

For some reason, my most recent entry on this journal fell victim to a spam replies from a Japanese spammer.

I woke up to find 100 notes in my inbox, all replies to my post about Epicurus... All anonymous, all in Japanese (except for a smattering of English loan words), all from the same IP address.

Deleted those, marked as spam. Came back a little while later, found three more. Deleted those, marked as spam. Came back a little while later, found nine more.

Decided to change my privacy settings.

*sigh*

Weird.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

You probably hit some combination of keywords that got the attention of a bot..

[capri0mni]

A mighty strange bot.

Everything from the typical stuff you'd expect from a scammer (promises of a 6-figure salary job), to one-liners that read like the have of a phone conversation ("no, I don't think it's a good idea to straighten your hair") ... 'course, all of that is could be Google Translate's weirdness, too.

And I wonder why that one post got all the replies, and none of the others... quantum physics? Greek philosophy? Maybe the word "epicurean"

[davidgillon]

Oursin mentioned a spam issue yesterday. Not sure if it's the same one, but it may be someone's targetting dreamwidth accounts.

[capri0mni]

Ah... Okay.

[jesse_the_k]

Yeah, I got a few on random posts as well.

(Still better than Facebook)

[capri0mni]

I got all 112 on a single post.

That may be the weirdest thing about it.