{"id":416,"date":"2005-05-31T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T01:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:28:48","slug":"blog-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/blog-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"blog spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikal laments about the evils of blog spam &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillhq.com\/diary\/000908.html\">stillhq.com &#8211; Blog spam continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me let all of you non-<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">wordpress<\/a> using people (who have comments enabled) know that <b>you have been living in sin!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is an answer to all your problems. I&#8217;ve been running the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress-plugins.feifei.us\/hashcash\/\">HashCash<\/a> extenstion to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">wordpress<\/a> for about a week. In that time, I have received <b>no<\/b> comment spam. Only real comments.<\/p>\n<p>How freakin awesome is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikal laments about the evils of blog spam &#8211; stillhq.com &#8211; Blog spam continued. Let me let all of you non-wordpress using people (who have comments enabled) know that you have been living in sin! Yes, there is an answer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/blog-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-6I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/aca-consumer-information-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":416,"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... Although i pity the poor people on the other end of that. Although.. getting rid of spam and prosecuting (executing even - i really don't mind) spammers is a REALLY\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","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":416,"position":1},"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... MovableType before it went *really* non-free.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/24\/comment-spam-protection\/","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":2},"title":"comment spam protection","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-05-24","format":false,"excerpt":"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 urges to kill, torture and maime guilty people. (spammers, not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":396,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/rusty-hating-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":3},"title":"Rusty hating spam","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-04-19","format":false,"excerpt":"Rusty's Bleeding Edge Page Rusty talking about the spam that banks give him. personally, i'm nearly convinced one of my banks is trying to kill me. they keep pestering me to take out \"accitdental death\" life insurance. Without fail, every few months - for years. fuckers.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;life, the universe and everything&quot;","block_context":{"text":"life, the universe and everything","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":573,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/icq-spam-on-the-increase\/","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":4},"title":"icq spam on the increase?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-02-14","format":false,"excerpt":"Is anybody else noticing an increase in ICQ spam? I have an increasing number of random people, without much details messaging me and adding me to their buddy list (or attempting to) saying something like \"hi\". I obviously don't know them. For the record, if you're a real person -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/getting-rid-of-comment-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":5},"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. I'll send you a script that will just about solve the problem for you. I'd publish it... but then we'd have the spammers trying to work around it. This sucks.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}