HashCash<\/a><\/p>\nmakes the client do a md5 of a string for each comment submitted.<\/p>\n
okay, so now you need javascript to comment on my blog.<\/p>\n
but frankly, that’s better than me fighting urges to kill, torture and maime guilty people. (spammers, not comment leavers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
hopefully this will help stop comment spam. using HashCash makes the client do a md5 of a string for each comment submitted. okay, so now you need javascript to comment on my blog. but frankly, that’s better than me fighting … 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-412","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\/p5a6n8-6E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/getting-rid-of-comment-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":412,"position":0},"title":"getting rid of comment spam","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-01-11","format":false,"excerpt":"If anyone wants to know my really brute force method of getting rid of comment spam, shoot us a mail. 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