{"id":336,"date":"2005-01-11T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2005-01-11T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T06:01:03","slug":"getting-rid-of-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/getting-rid-of-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"getting rid of comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anyone wants to know my really brute force method of getting rid of comment spam, shoot us a mail. I’ll send you a script that will just about solve the problem for you.<\/p>\n

I’d publish it… but then we’d have the spammers trying to work around it. This sucks.<\/p>\n

I still maintain it should be legal to kill them.<\/p>\n

Yes, that goes against my usual more non-harming ways (I’m vegan<\/strong> okay!) – it just seems like the morally correct thing to do with them….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If anyone wants to know my really brute force method of getting rid of comment spam, shoot us a mail. I’ll send you a script that will just about solve the problem for you. I’d publish it… but then we’d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/aca-consumer-information-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":0},"title":"ACA Consumer Information: SPAM","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-09-30","format":false,"excerpt":"ACA Consumer Information: SPAM I'm very tempted to add a procmail rule that forwards all spam to the reporting address... 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I've been running the HashCash extenstion\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "website"","block_context":{"text":"website","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/website\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/upgraded-wordpress\/","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":3},"title":"upgraded WordPress","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-12-17","format":false,"excerpt":"to 1.2.2 - hopefully nothing explodes. Big comment spam problem - although not as bad as in the MT days (at least I can moderate). Interesting to see what 1.3 has it store... but possibly not mucking around with it yet :)","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/blog-spam-hitting-wordpress\/","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":4},"title":"blog spam hitting wordpress","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-09-24","format":false,"excerpt":"*sigh*... now blog spam is hitting wordpress blogs. At least there's a \"Moderate all posts\" option - unlike the crud that is MovableType. Well... 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