arcanetrivia: a light purple swirl on a darker purple background (annoyed (snapesmite))
Stuff about the mysterious random friendings by Russian-language journals. Apparently there is a rash of bots. See http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/russian+bots.

Date: October 11th, 2008 06:37 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] lunylucy.livejournal.com
Happened to me at least 3 times, probably more. Was pretty weirded out but less so than the average user I guess since I have a Russian school listed in my profile.

Date: October 11th, 2008 11:34 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] mimimanderly.livejournal.com
This has happened to me SO many times! A Russian will friend me, then de-friend me a day or two later. I even wrote a journal entry about this subject, 'cause it was weirding me out! I just assumed that Russians were really into Snape drawings, so they were checking me out. Then they'd get into my gallery and see the really smutty stuff and leave in indignation. There were so many of them that if they had stayed friended, they would outnumber the English-speaking people on my friends list. What the hell is the PURPOSE of these bots, anyway? Does anyone know?

Date: October 11th, 2008 08:30 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
Briefly, aside from annoyance, the purpose seems likely to be identity theft. If you friend the bot, then it can get your friends-locked entries, and people often post personal information under lock thinking it's safe.

Date: October 11th, 2008 10:22 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] stillvisions.livejournal.com
Thanks for the heads up - forwarding along to the other half of the internet in my FL who was curious about it.

Date: October 12th, 2008 02:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
"The other half of the internet"? You mean non-fandom? ;)

Date: October 14th, 2008 04:37 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] stillvisions.livejournal.com
Nah, just (somewhat) less of the "fic fandom" and more of the "cosplay fandom" ^^

Date: October 12th, 2008 03:39 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] speed-demon77.livejournal.com
You've just solved a mystery for me! I've been friended by several Russian journals and couldn't figure out why. I've hidden pretty much everything under friends lock because I got friended by the icon stealing peeps. But just in the last few days there have been several notices from LJ about somebody adding me as a friend and their journal had already been suspended and I was very confused. Thanks for the info!

BTW [livejournal.com profile] softly_sweetly has me already wound up about Christmas and I was wondering if you're still at the same address. And it occurs to me that your last name has possibly changed? If I'm right could you maybe drop me an email? Or there's a post about it in my journal with the comments set as screened. Thanks!

Date: October 12th, 2008 04:03 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
Last name is now Hatt. Everything else is same as last year. (We are still living with my parents :-/ .)

I'm still waiting on some kind of prettiness made for me with that copy of Photoshop, you know. ;)

I've hidden pretty much everything under friends lock because I got friended by the icon stealing peeps.

"The icon stealing peeps"? O.o There's is a databse bug that sometimes makes icons randomly appear as someone else's. But aside from that, anyone can easily take icons from http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=speed_demon77, yanno. Friendslocking won't help that.

Date: October 12th, 2008 04:12 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] speed-demon77.livejournal.com
I know they can get them from my profile but the big things is that a lot of them hotlink the icons. I could care less if they use LJ bandwith, but I don't want them "borrowing" my storage space. It takes like 5 seconds to set up a Photobucket account but they're too lazy for that.

What kind of prettiness would you like? I'm open to suggestions. I've finally gotten one of those For Dummies books and I've taught myself one or two new things.

Date: October 17th, 2008 05:02 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
Well, I was mostly kidding. But TBH I am not even sure what kind of art you do in the first place. Draw/paint, manips, photography...?

Date: October 17th, 2008 05:18 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] speed-demon77.livejournal.com
I make some spectacularly lame icons. I've made myself some wallpapers as well. I'm wanting to try my hand at photography since my mom gave me her last camera. Although lately I haven't had much time for anything.

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