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I hope there's a special circle in hell for serial adders like

dirtyfilthy... they'll have to sit there and read and delete spam 24/7. Right next to the spammers and trolls. Come to think of it, I think they fit both categories.

I don't get why people do them the favour to friend them back. That just makes it worth their while.

silent_and_calm runs a particularly annoying script (based on

dirtyfilthy's, apparently) - a bot that searches LJ for new posts and, soon as it finds one, adds the poster to his friends list, then takes them off again if they don't friend back within a certain period of time. Lether, rinse, repeat. I've been added by that bloody §%$# journal a couple of times already. I banned him now; let's see if the friends-add notifications get filtered out. If I'm still getting the notifications after this, I'm gonna report him to LJ abuse for spamming. The only thing that kept me from doing so is that it looks like a lot of trouble... and that hopefully a couple hundred others have already reported that little $#!+!

I loathe spam.

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I thought it was a fantastic use of the system, myself. When

dirtyfilthy was still running the script, he had a livejournal entry that detailed some of the implications of the whole thing, in terms of how people conceive the 'friend of' edge, and it stimulated quite a bit of thought on what we assume about the service without any real justification. (Also, I have email notifications turned off.)

I have the notifications turned on, and I find them extremely useful. I find

silent_and_calm's suggestion to turn them off so as not to be bothered by his adding notifications quite brazen, to put it mildly. Same goes for his advice to go to the admin console and ban him. Why do I have to go to that trouble to opt out of hearing from him? He shouldn't put other users in that position in the first place. It's a waste of my time, trying to figure out how *not* to hear from someone I don't even know.

Add to that the fact he uses a bot and the case is quite clear to me; it's spam, plain and simple. I just had to give up my old email due to spam. I think it's grown from a mere nuisance into something that's bogging down online communication... and I loathe it with a passion.

I completely agree with you, there's nothing about this guy that isn't about spam and annoyance. He makes it everyone else's job to put up or shut up and accepts no responsibility for his intrusion and lack of respect. If LJ Abuse won't shut those bots down then they darn well should.

He's a pest. I heard that people *have* reported him but the journal is still up. Adding people against their will isn't against the TOS, but this is so clearly spam, he shouldn't get away with it.

Mostly because, right now it's just a handful of creeps running that script. If that makes the rounds, we might as well forget about using the handy new noticication feature, because there'll be too much useless data; fake friends notifications drowing out the rest. Lovely.

Who friends back a troll anyway. :]