MILES to GO || before I sleep

Quasi-back for now maybe

2015-08-15T06:20:08Z

Every time I go away from Dreamwidth blogging for a while, Dreamwidth goes and gets more awesome. I decided to nix my Premium account because even though I love the site and service, I was using it so rarely I couldn't justify the expense, especially when I've got my own domain and am often trying to post to my various WordPress-powered blogs on sites there.

The problem is, my sites are so new, so thin on content, that I don't have that built-in community.

This gets crossposted to LiveJournal, and why? Well, LJ has been around even longer than Dreamwidth, but LJ also had so so so many issues when Six Apart sold it (even before that, when Brad sold it to Six Apart). I really didn't like a lot of those changes, and I saw a lot of my fellow LJers move over to Dreamwidth. The communities sometimes followed, but not always.

I have a permanent account on LJ, which means it's not supposed to go anywhere, ever. Theoretically, all the interconnected services there are these days should mean that it's EASIER to cross-post and always stay up-to-date, but the real experience of LJ and DW are the Friends List/Reading Page, and these days, if I'm reading anything for a prolonged period of time, it's Facebook. Yes, there are fan communities there too, but it's very much NOT the same.

I never really divided my fandom self from my "real" self-- I'm not afraid to tell people who I am on Facebook or deviantArt or wherever, and I've never particularly cared about "IRL" friends or family finding out about my fandom activities.

"Judge not, lest ye be judged" I guess.

( Long-winded entry continues here... )

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Repo Men: Spam Attack

2010-03-02T08:58:17Z

Day 3 of the Repo Men hunt saw an influx of spam on the #repomen channel on Twitter, with known spammers (auto-bots) likely trying to protect the whereabouts of #repowill (Will La Ferriere), who went on-grid after he failed to complete a task for Groundswell, Inc. He was last known to be in Nashville, IL traveling at 39 MPH (likely in a car). His most recent purchase was for an Amtrak ticket, but no Amtrak stations are within walking distance of his location on Mission Rd. near the South Side Sports Bar. However, there are several within a short drive's distance.

Because it was a $121 credit purchase, it's possible he actually made the purchase a few days ago, but that doesn't mean the ticket couldn't have been used for a trip today.

The (currently) known spammer/bot list:
travocsky
marceliswallis1
uniquiocity
smokermirrer
smokenmirrorz
toga_bot (possibly unrelated, but it picked up on the use of TOGA! in some of the spam tweets and kept the cycle going)
speedstersmith

These bots will respond in a flood to any Tweets with the #repomen or #repowill hashtag, usually with links to the Repo Men trailer on YouTube or another YT link (that is dead/incorrectly written), or a lot of gibberish or repetitive words.

As many of these bots have been reported for spam and blocked as possible; please continue to do so to help keep the #repomen channel clean. I've also communicated with theunioncares to assist in this issue, if it's possible.

I've created a private List containing all these spammers, but I'd be happy to make it public if it would help in any way.

More coming soon.

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