Funny thing ....

[unixronin]

...I've suddenly started getting spam comments on five-year-old LiveJournal posts.

Do they think that if they only try to comment-spam five-year-old posts I won't notice?  Do they think that anyone but me will actually SEE spam comments on a five-year-old post?

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Comments

[mr_spock]

LOL - I've been seeing the same thing, on posts going back to 2005!

You're right that they are foolish to think anyone but you is likely to see the comments on a post that old. Which just goes to show that they are being paid to throw out as much crap as they can - they don't care where it goes as long as they get a credit for a post. They have a business model that is incredibly inefficient and sloppy.

[fair_witness]

I think you're the third or fourth person on my FL who's said something about this in the last couple days. Is your spam a YouTube link, too?

[hugh_mannity]

I had a couple, both on posts I made to communities , one from 2006 the other from 2003. They can't spam most of my journal because it's friends only.

The email notification has what appears to be a you tube link in it --- I don't know what the link is too, I haven't followed it. The link photo is of a page of text.

Neither of the spammers appears to have an LJ account -- or at least LJ couldn't find one. Nor do either of the comments appear in the comments to the posts.

[mr_spock]

I stopped seeing any new spam when I reset my blog so only friends could comment without being screened. But I'd have to say that not clicking through to find out what's on the other side is smart.

[unixronin]

I've had mine configured almost forever to allow only registered accounts to comment.

[jilara]

I've gotten spam IN RUSSIAN on elderly posts. At least I think it's spam. Go figure.

[unixronin]

I've seen a bunch of those, mostly to posts in the logjam or logjam-dev community.

[databeast]

Do they even think anyone reads Livejournal any more? :-P

[guppiecat]

Google does.

That's why they're doing this. Recent changes to Google's algorithm prioritizes "social content", so any links to what they want to promote from social sources boosts their ranking.

Since most of the other social networks take a walled garden approach, LJ spam is suddenly a lot more viable.

[unixronin]

Iiiiinteresting.....

[bunrab]

I've been getting spam like that on old posts pretty steadily right along - I get little spates of them every few months, two or three within a couple days of each other on 2 or 3 old posts, Been going on for the last 2 years or so. Congratulations on finally joining me in the spam comment circle of LJ Hell.