Too much comment spam.

[baratron]

I have finally disabled anonymous comments. If anyone who doesn't have a livejournal wishes to contact me, then email to baratron at livejournal dot com works.

Although I'm not sure if this is enough, given that the latest scam is to set up a throwaway livejournal account to comment from. If I see that "I have a massive crush on you" spam message one more time, I will scream. There should be a way to disable further comments on old posts without also deleting the comments that are already there.

I hope that I won't have to switch to friends-only commenting, because that rather gets in the way of making new friends, but we'll see.

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

I've had no spam. I've got CAPTCHAs for non-friends and screen comments from non-friends before displaying them to others turned on.
Doesn't prevent non-friends commenting but it raises the bar for bots and spam.

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=privacy