New spammer.

[icarus]

A sockpuppet account is spamming my old Fanlib posts. Again. These appear to be all the same person:

harrisybanes
lannateffetell
craigtaube
terrellhellums
howardclancy
mariahkopp
weldonarnett

If you'd like to ban them too, go to: http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/

Type: ban_set [insert User Name here]

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

The spammers seem to be out in force tonight. I've had three different ones (neither of the two you list) respond to ancient comments of mine on other people's posts.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You, too?

If it's convenient, let me know their names, and I'll ban them as well.

What do they get out of this? I have a hard enough time just keeping up with my f-list and responding to comments from friends. I can't imagine why anyone would create extra work for themselves.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

craigtaube
terrellhellums
howardclancy

Yeah, I have no idea. They all said stuff that was vaguely tailored to the content of the posts/comments, too, so it must have taken some work, not just a random c&p job.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah, the same thing then. Might even be the same person.

In this case for example, a comment on a post about the LJ elections this summer had remarked about McCain. Tailoring it, sort of, but hadn't actually read the post.