LJ Comment Spam

[womzilla]

For several months, I've received occasional anonymous comments that I assumed were spam. The comments are always in response my political posts, and are always in this form:

all lowercase sentence expressing shock at the latest developments ("i can't believe this is happening!"
HEADLINE
link to an article on Faux News

I finally got around to setting my LJ to screen anonymous comments and record the IP of the poster. I accidentally unthinkingly deleted one last week, but this morning I got another. It's from 206.15.101.139. Network Solutions Whois tells me this:

206.15.101.139
Record Type: IP Address

OrgName: News Corporation
OrgID: NEWSC
Address: 1211 Avenue of the Americas
Address: 7th Floor
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10036
Country: US

Morons. They aren't even smart enough to spam from a disguised server.

Unfortunately, LiveJournal doesn't allow you to ban comments by IP. So what recourse do I have now?

Comments

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

Screen anonymous comments by default on your political posts

[avram]

Here’s someone else complaining about it a few months back.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

So Faux is not only comprised of liars, but whiners. In the words of Gomer Pyle, "Surprise Surprise Surprise!"

(When my letters are published in the local paper, and they are of a particular viewpoint, I used to get death threats which became merely cut out cartoons. All with no return address. Same with phone calls and e-mails. I could tell the ones from the left because they identified themselves and answered by calls/e-mails. The right wingers are such cowards.)

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

This has been happening to other blogs as well:

http://bloggerbeer.blogspot.com/2006/08/comment-spam.html

I know it's shown up in at least a couple other places, but I don't have my feed archive at hand to find the mentions.

My guess, it's a bid to boost their rank in Technorati and other indexes.

(Reposting comment because agrumer had posted the Ed Cone link already.)

[nppyinzer.livejournal.com]

Sneak into their offices and pee in the fridge?