Spam = No more anonymous comments

[major_clanger]

Owing to anonymous spam comments in a recent open post, I've disabled commenting except by authorised users. I'm not sure if this includes people who post via OpenID, so if you are such a reader could you try leaving a comment to see if you can? (And if you can't, send me a message.)

Comments

[cdave]

Was it in Japanese, or mentioning Lewis?

Do do you have the IP address, was it 125.14.*.* or 125.15.*.*?

If so, he's spreading to my f-list now. I should stop mentioning him in my posts.

Or was this actual normal "buy drugs here" spam?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I deleted it before checking the address, but yes, it looked like Japanese.

[cdave]

Sorry about that. I don't think it's a normal spam bot since it can break captchas, and I think it spreads to people's f-lists.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

this thing on?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're posting from your LJ account, yes? I was trying to see if people who posted from other systems via OpenID could still comment if I turned comments to 'registered users only'.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I just tried with my DW OpenID, and it wouldn't let me comment.

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

Thats what i get for not reading the whole message.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Was it any good?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Nah, I logged out of LJ to test, and the OpenID option is greyed out as is the Anonymous one.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Ok, I've amended my settings to require moderation of anonymous comments and a CAPTCHA to post them. That ought to at least stop spam showing up but allow OpenID friends to comment.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

How absurd it is that you have to go to all this effort to keep cretins away from your account.