I too have had some of those odd befriendings that do not seem related to anything I can easily discern, and it does bug me somewhat that it might easily be accounts that are sucking friends post and reposting them as content elsewhere. Nearly all of my post lately have been very strict friends only except for topics so drenched in the media that even if my posts are getting friend sucked to other sites that it would get lost in the morass.
My guess is that there are LJ accounts that are friending things they want to use as content post in third party blogs by making one account, friending it, then pulling that post via RSS to something that autoposts to some blog in some faraway land and then ads are dumped to that blog. The person makes a blog with content and ads and never has to actually WRITE a blog, but just pull contents from any public posts. It does make sense, too, to make ONE account and associate THAT account with ONE LJ friend, then you can just keep a database of LJ accounts that equal particular topics that the unsuspecting friended user post about. In your case, I suspect that most of your public posts are about nature related things, and my guess is that all of your old 365 days in urban species are all open to the public. I wouldn't understand, though, why they wouldn't just suck that content out via RSS anyway, except that they may have some technical reason or some reason that doing it that particular way makes them less likely to get caught.
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Date: 2008-01-08 10:01 pm (UTC)My guess is that there are LJ accounts that are friending things they want to use as content post in third party blogs by making one account, friending it, then pulling that post via RSS to something that autoposts to some blog in some faraway land and then ads are dumped to that blog. The person makes a blog with content and ads and never has to actually WRITE a blog, but just pull contents from any public posts. It does make sense, too, to make ONE account and associate THAT account with ONE LJ friend, then you can just keep a database of LJ accounts that equal particular topics that the unsuspecting friended user post about. In your case, I suspect that most of your public posts are about nature related things, and my guess is that all of your old 365 days in urban species are all open to the public. I wouldn't understand, though, why they wouldn't just suck that content out via RSS anyway, except that they may have some technical reason or some reason that doing it that particular way makes them less likely to get caught.