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Out of curiosity, before I deleted a month worth of blogspam comments attached to GreatestJournal entries, I grabbed some numbers. Ten entries got all the spam in November: five entries got one spam comment each; the others got 5, 12, 22, 23, and 27 comments. It doesn't look like I'm getting any non-spam comments. Partway through the month, the spam shifted from cars to porn with the occasional drug ad. (Yes, I had been getting car spam, of all things.)

I may yet follow the advice in a News post from the start of November and just disable anonymous comments -- friends without blogs can would still be able to post comments to the copies of my entries on the other sites, which shouldn't be a problem unless discussions they want to join in on start up in my GreatestJournal. (Right now I think the only comments I'm getting at GreatestJournal at all are blogspam -- the vast majority of the comments I get are still at LiveJournal, unsurprisingly.) Or perhaps if OpenID becomes just a bit more popular (and if GreatestJournal adds OpenID support), folks who've been anonymous merely because they haven't had a good enough reason to create their own accounts will sign up for OpenID elsewhere and only those who specifically wish to be anonymous will have to worry whether the place they want to post has been so poisoned by spammers (or trolls) that anonymous posting has been disabled.

For now, anonymous commenting is still enabled (though anonymous comments are screened at GreatestJournal). At least until I get too tired of deleting spam to bother any more (and then I'll turn it off one site at a time as the spammers target each).

... Which reminds me (as a recent conversation with john-tangent also did) that I'd still like to find a way to aggregate the comments made to the different copies of a journal entry on different sites using the LiveJournal software, so that, for example, someone reading one of my etries at CommieJournal would be able to see the conversation started under the InsaneJournal copy of that entry. Basically, I want the advantages of mirroring my journal without the disadvantage of splitting my audience. This may or may not be feasible, but if it turns out that there is a way to eat my cake and have it too, that'd be pretty cool.

I've got an idea how to collect the comments posted to all the LJ-codebase sites and reproduce them at my own web site (though I need to estimate the impact it'll have in terms of both disk space and traffic). I'm not sure mirroring comments between the various journalling sites will work.