IP logging is turned on for spam control. Yes, we have occasional spam problems. That's one of my less-obtrusive means of discouraging it. When it acts up badly enough and a few deletions don't solve the problem, then I have to lock a journal to friends-only for a while, and for a community that kills casual traffic. So that one, I don't like to leave on all the time.

I'd love for the net to be safe for fully anonymous surfing all the time. But then it turns into: "TROLLS. Trolls as far as the eye can see!"

:/