spammers suck

[ratcreature]

There has been a sharp increase in spam comments in my LJ and an also some on DW. I screen anon comments, but having to delete amd report bunches of them is getting rather tedious. Okay, it's a couple every day, so not a flood, precisely, but still. I don't like the idea of turning off anon comments entirely, but if this keeps up, I'm not sure what else to do. Has anyone else noticed more spam than usual recently, or is it just me?

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[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

i haven't noticed more spam that normal...

LJ has an option which lets you put a 'human test' on anon comments. That cut down my spam pretty significantly when it had reached the point where I was considering locking down the whole journal. POssible DW has the same.

[ratcreature]

Yes, someone on DW pointed that out too, and I have now turned that on. I hadn't thought of it, because I hate these captcha test because I often can't make out the words myself and fail them, but it's better than turning off anon comments entirely.

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

yes, I have also on occasion proved that I am inhuman.

[ratcreature]

And that's even when you see okay. I mean, there are plenty of people for whom tiny warped letters suck because they need large letters to be able to see anything or can't see, and from what I heard the audio ones are even harder to make sense of than the visual ones. I once listened to one after I was frustrated that I failed the visual one twice, and I didn't understand anything except the instructions, there was just some kind of warbling background noise, and I recognized the places were the words were spoken, but with the noise I couldn't make sense of them. And I suppose if you display your internet in braille or something, because you don't hear or see well, you are completely out of luck. Really, spammers have a lot to answer for that they make this necessary.