Anonymous Posters Take Note

[rolanni]

I'm sorry, folks.  It was OK for a couple of weeks, but the viagra and handbag spam are back -- this time in Russian. I can't keep up with shutting them down, so -- Anonymous commenting is going to be turned off as soon as I hit "Post" on this message.

If you want to comment here, you'll need to get a free LJ account, or a Facebook account, or a Google Circles account or a...Merchant ID? account?  A discussion of the various non-anonymous methods of posting here would be welcome, since I'm clearly not informed.

I understand that many regular anonymous posters have strong feelings about not signing up for this or that or the other thing, and I have tried to accomodate that, but at this point -- no can do.

Thank you for your understanding.

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[anghara.livejournal.com]

My comments are set to friends-only; that is to say, people who are friended by my account get a free pass. Other LJ registered folk go into a screening bin and I unscreen the comment if it is relevant and non-offensive (this saved my bacon a couple of times because the comment in the screen bin, albeit with a LJ handle, came fully equipped with a rather eye-watering close-up of female genitalia - which I don't particularly want plastered all over my blog, thankyouverymuchindeed.) Anonymouse posting in commentary has been turned off for a VERY long time here - not so much because of direct spam (although it helps there) but because I seem to attract a particular KIND of nasty because of my background and ethnicity. I have no truck with that. If anyone wants to spew their poison they can do it in places that are NOT my own "cyber-house".

Sorry, but them's the breaks. It isn't as though people are breaking down the doors to comment here - I don't get a Scalziesque comment load in any event, and this minor policing makes it manageable, for me.