spam, spam, spam, egg and spam

[freckles_and_doubt]

I'm seeing increasing amounts of spam on this account, several a day at the moment - mostly they're in Russian or, this morning, what appears to be Norwegian. LJ decorously informs me of them, and I delete them from the little dogbox corral of suspicion where it is wont to stash them until their bona fides are proven. In moments of extreme self-doubt, spam on my blog at least makes me feel needed.

What's weirding me out, though, is the posts they choose to spam. Most often it's this one, a generally uninspired little effusion in which I burble about my cats, with pictures. It doesn't seem to contain any commercial trigger words. It has attracted precisely three genuine comments. What is the secret of its apparently incredible allure to spammers? If they're not spamming there, they spam the Thor post, the one with the random bit of wolverine_nun-upsetting doggerel in the subject line. Likewise an unexciting piece of prose, unless you have a desperate attraction to superheroes, fangirling or godlike abs, which to be perfectly fair your average spammer might well have.

Nonetheless. In terms of reaching anyone's attention other than mine with a delete key, spamming this journal at large, and those posts in particular, seems curiously pointless. I am clearly infested with dadaist spammers, hell-bent on making a peculiar artistic statement all of their own, one whose parameters embrace obscurity, futility and a masochistic and nihilistic flirtation with unvalidated existence. If spam falls on a year-old low-traffic blog post which no-one reads, does it actually exist? Also, after looking up the Monty Python sketch, the word "spam" has ceased to have any meaning and has become a collection of curiously alien shapes.

I'm back at work. It's frying my brain. Can you tell?

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[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

Although mine seems to be mostly Polish, and is targeting my blog post two years ago about Tokyo. It's exceptionally randomly targeted.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

You can prevent new comments on the entry altogether - Edit entry, change "comments" to "locked".

I've done this on a couple of old posts that were randomly attracting spam.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Synchronicity is weird! It completely independently occurred to me that I could do this this morning, and I did so, a good few hours before I saw your comment. Kicking, may I add, myself for stupidity. Thank you for the tip. It was entirely appropriate and well-aimed :>.