Spamjournal

I'm again considering closing up shop and moving to another journaling solution.

This time, the issue is spam. Russian LJ comment spam.

I average about one a day. It's not terrible, but an annoyance when I'm on the fence with the service to begin with. It really annoys me for two reasons:

1. It really annoys me because I have to DO something about it. It means I have to go delete each one by hand rather than LJ binning up all the "suspect" comments in one place so that I can delete them whenever I get to it (much like Wordpress does).


2. I get an email for each one. With Wordpress, I only get emailed comments that pass through the spam filter. The rest are just put into the "Spam" category. I can look over them and mass delete them whenever I log in. Half the time, the comment was already deleted by the spammer, but the email goes out immediately when the comment is made.
   
   In essence, the spammers are using LJ as a vector to spam me via email.

But I'm still stuck with the same conundrum I was last year. There are still a good number of people I only follow on here. I don't want to lose connection with them. I'm again looking at Dreamwidth. It's LJ-like because it's branched from the LJ codebase, but with a lot of the stupidity of LJ fixed.

However, it seems that all the cool kids are on Tumblr now. I have an account there as well, and I'm giving thought to moving over there.

I'm also not fond of the idea of losing 10 years of posts. Maybe there's a way to import all my old posts into Tumblr...