{"id":26,"date":"2004-10-25T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2004-10-25T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T18:58:17","slug":"on-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/26","title":{"rendered":"on spam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">Whoever initially flooded me with comment spam has apparently kept me on their list.  I can picture a weasel of a man hunched over his laptop at an Internet cafe, letting his bots (which he did not write, but bought off an underground ring of weasel-like programmers) penetrate the sites and lives of people he doesn&#8217;t know, essentially cluttering the Internet with even more garbage.  This is his job.  An honest man at work.  <\/div>\n<p>I hate him and people like him.  I could rant&#8230;. but I have class.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">I will leave some of the comments, mostly links to online gambling sites, for reference.  I wonder if there is a good way to prevent this sort of thing, aside from requiring registration to comment&#8230; which is no good.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever initially flooded me with comment spam has apparently kept me on their list. I can picture a weasel of a man hunched over his laptop at an Internet cafe, letting his bots (which he did not write, but bought off an underground ring of weasel-like programmers) penetrate the sites and lives of people he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/26\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">on spam&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}