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[james_davis_nicoll]

One of my old posts from July 2007 is getting hit with comment spam so I have disabled comments. Is there a way to just prevent more comments from being made? My current solution appears to have vanished all the old comments.

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[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

You can set it to screen non-lj comments.

[jimtbari.livejournal.com]

In theory one can set it up to require CAPTCHAs (those annoying images/sound files to prove either that one is human or that one's programs are especially clever), but after taking a quick look I didn't see how to do that, either for an individual post or journal-wide.

I think setting the comments to be screened and turning off email notification (for that post) might be your the best choice.

[kestrell.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same problem, but since the spam posters seem to have LJ accounts, I don't think screening anonymous posts will work and, as for the captcha, my blind friends would be the ones most penalized by this. Any other options?

[casaubon.livejournal.com]

You can set it so that only non-friends get the Captcha...