Our Russian "Friends"

[furrbear]

I know people have been wondering about the random/phantom Russians with cyrillic alphabet journals friending them.

Here is some info from someone who has done the digging:

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

Short version: they are robots, you should report them to lj abuse under 'other' problems, and title your message "Russian bots". lj has been working on excluding them: all but one of mine are now dead - but has not yet got them all.

Do not friend them back.

There are actual genuine Russian LJs but they typically differ from the bot LJs by actually having posted content.