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[sophiaserpentia]

Hmm, to what do I owe the honor?

kkk_membership

I think I see a few patterns...

For quite some time LJ has been confronted with the question of how to force someone to take you off their friend's list. At the moment there is no way to do this. But I see this sort of thing happening more in the future until LJ admits that eliminating the invite codes has opened LJ up to all kinds of spam and trolling.

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[dragonguyver.livejournal.com]

hey, another one of my friends was added by them too. weird.

[pooperman.livejournal.com]

I heard there was some macro out there called something like "six degrees of separation" that would take your friends list and add the friends of your friends list, and so on, six times.

Of course, I think LJ does limit the number of people you can put on your friends list (looks like 299 might be the limit for a free account, if that's any consolation).

Gotta hand it to him/her, though. They got what they wanted--127 replies and counting, and they created their account today!

[queenofhalves]

you can make it so no one can see who you're a friend of. that makes this sort of thing a very ineffective method of harassment.

[alobar.livejournal.com]

I think I must be missing something here. I don't see what the problem is.

[ovary.livejournal.com]

Ick. I agree with you on that spam/trolling bit. I think if LJ could allow you to approve requests for someone to "friend" you, then that would be a great way of doing it. ICQ did it that way.

I've had my own little troll-adder for around a year now, but I think he must have gone to the loony bin just a few days after adding me. arthurblake -- interesting read from beginning to end if you're bored, but a bit weird.

[revxaos.livejournal.com]

Yep.

I got the kkk person... and another lovely friend...

crotchbleeder.


What a name.

[jl-legend.livejournal.com]

Sadly on any service networking people, there's bound to be the worse elements of societies. On the big chat servers I used to go to we labelled them "lizards".

It's a whole new world of spam for them, hit you on your public journals, and it's free.

I've no idea how to deal with them, if it's a matter of not wanting people to know about these twerps you cna hide your friends list, but that doesn't solve the problem. Neither does making your friends list accessible to people ony your friends list, that's cutting yourself.

It's a fatal loop, there's nothing we can do except report them if somehow they act inappropriately on our journals.

Sorry I cna't be more use.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Well, the deal is, anyone can add you, but that doesn't mean they can see your private posts. All it means it that when they load their friends page, they read your public entries.
I suggest ignoring them - sounds like they are just looking for drama.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

This is a blatant troll designed to make people angry when they look at their info page and see "KKK membership."

It falls under free speech certainly -- but it's annoying. If you read the comments this person has gotten, you can see how very annoying it is for some people.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

I know, but I like being able to see who has friended me and who hasn't. Generally I automatically friend whoever adds me.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Maybe I missed that in the fine print somewhere.

In any case, there was some talk of implementing a system akin to YM's "karma" to prevent trollers and spammers. This is an idea I find myself increasingly warm to.

[contentlove.livejournal.com]

Here's a handy little tool to see who's friended/unfriended you on a daily basis. If your friends list gets big, it's quite useful.

[alobar.livejournal.com]

I figured those parts out. But just don't see the problem. So long as they can't read my friends only posts & their posts don't show up when I view my friends page, all else is certainly not worth my bother. Once in a while I check-out who has befriended me. Sometimes I add some of them back. But sometimes I do not. It does not bother me that someone I am not interested in chooses to read my posts.

Is it some sort of fear of guilt by association thing? That is the only thing which makes sense to me, but that just does not compute.

[brigid-shine.livejournal.com]

OT: love the icon.

[azaz-al.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[karpocrates.livejournal.com]

Idiocy. Complete and utter idiocy. This what I mean when I say humanity is caught in a downwards spiral of de-evolution. We need to stop breeding with these idiots, people.

fyi...

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

When you hide your "friend of" list, *you* can still see it on your userinfo page. It just has (hidden) in front of it. Only other users can't see it.

[beowulf1723.livejournal.com]

They're breeding with each other -- which is probably part of the problem.