getting rid of those weird Russian LJ "friends"

[realthog]

Huge thanks to quietselkie  for this:

Follow the link below to read how to report to LJ's Abuse Team the serial frienders and spam LJs so many of us have been plagued with of late.

http://nympholept.livejournal.com/tag/russian+bots

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"I seem to have forgotten how to ban user"

Far better is to follow the link to nympholept's LJ, and then follow the (very simple) instructions given there. That way you'll get rid of the "friend" for good.

There is no direct "ban user" capability in the LJ software; the best you can do is stop the undesirable's ID appearing on your friends list (and I, too, have forgotten how to do this).

xx

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Visit the admin console ( http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ ) and type in ban_set username and click Execute.

I picked up another one today. *sigh* Will report these doofuses one by one until some genius coder at LJ figures out how to block them.