koganbot | If it wasn't for spambot, I wouldn't have no bot at all

Been keeping my lj open to anonymous posters so that Chuck, anhh, Scott, and several people I know only under the name "Anonymous" can post comments. I hope to keep it that way, while contending with the spambots as best I can. This generally isn't too hard: mostly the spambots find some old thread and hit it with one or two or bomb it with a lot, and when I get the chance at the end of the day I delete the spam or, if the spam's really numerous, simply lock the thread temporarily. Doesn't really matter, since very few people ever make their way to my old threads. [EDITORIAL COMMENT: Um, you should. Frolic around with the tags over on the lower right. UPDATE: Or lower left if you're on Dreamwidth.] Sometimes I actually enjoy rediscovering an old conversation I'd have forgotten if the spambots hadn't drawn me back.

Problem now is that the spambots are consistently finding my most recent threads, which I'd like to keep open no matter what. Poor Lakeside is getting strafed by 50 or so spammies a day. I don't want to lock my new threads, but I'm not always able to get online, or when I am online, don't always have time to check my inbox. So if you drop by, you might see a lot of dreck down various threads. But don't be afraid to comment, if you get the urge. I'll clear out the spam comments soon enough, and'll be careful not to delete yours.

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Case in point in this thread so far. ^^

I made the mistake - once - of writing about "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi" (a well-known anime) and putting the series title in the post title. The antidepressant spambots found me and I still get antidepressant spam, to this day.

But the spambots are letting up (at least for the time being) on "Lakeside Municipal Offices," "How Bar Bar Bar became a hit," and "Korean rock 'n' rap" (they've stayed away from "Zappa over at rockcritics.com" altogether, perhaps having the same combination of hatred for and intimidation by the guy that rock critics have). So they must now have software that alerts them to any new

koganbot post, rather than just software that tells them "here's a random thread on Livejournal that's not blocked to anonymous posters" and "here's a thread that we or whomever we bought from discovered at random and now know to return to."

The other thread they're still hot on is "What does not chill me makes me stronger (Z.Hera, Baek Ji Young, BoA)," which I'm keeping open because I've linked it recently (is the one where, on June 8, David Frazer embedded a fancam of the first live, street performance of "Bar Bar Bar" a couple of weeks prior to its release).

When I do lock a thread, I always include a note that I'll unlock it if anyone wants to post, and I include my email addy (edcasual at earthlink dot net). So I don't know what my reticence is about locking that one. Sentimentality, I suppose.

Edited 2013-09-30 12:12 (UTC)

They seem to have been on the attack lately unless you've been very quick to delete in the past.

I wonder if quickness has anything to do with it (the bots are probably spamming me more than the potential unlookers).

Iinfinitely low-tiered nugus Flashe have emerged from wherever they've been hiding and uploaded a new MV.

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I only know about it because someone posted it on the reddit K-Pop forum.

P.S. On the comments to another upload of the MV, someone speculates that three members might have been replaced.

Thanks. Haven't had the chance to listen to this yet (no sound at the moment), or the new Tiny G., or T.A.P (whoever they are).

According to Color Coded Lyrics (which I should have checked before, duh), the only original members left are SongHee (in Drop It she's the one who repeats the chorus as a solo) and Narae (the rapper).

"Drop It" seems to have been entirely built around those two, so this isn't the difference I'd feared it would be.

Melody sounds like second-level American teenpop circa 2000, which would be fine but I'm kinda meh on this particular song. It's okay, but nowhere near the level of "Drop It." Songhee's still a good singer.

플래쉬 flashe 2집 오예요 (Oh Ye Yo) 뮤직비디오 입니다:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2jB02Prrg

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