{"id":174,"date":"2007-05-31T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2007-05-31T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T20:38:52","slug":"steve-i-dont-think-youre-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Steve! I Don&#039;t Think You&#039;re Spam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a ton of spam comments to this blog. I don&#8217;t know why. I don&#8217;t get very many real comments, but somehow the spammers hit me with about 80 a week.<\/p>\n<p>So I have moderation set. If you&#8217;ve commented before, then you can comment again without having to wait for moderation. But if you haven&#8217;t commented before, then your comment goes into a queue, which I forget to check for many days at a run.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I wade through all the spam to hopefully find a real comment from a real person. I publish the real comment, then click a button that marks all the rest as spam and deletes them.<\/p>\n<p>As I clicked the button today, I saw, mixed in with all the spam, an actual comment from my Internet friend, known to me mainly as The Hulk, but sometimes as Steve. And then, while I screamed NOOOOOOOooooooo&#8230; it disappeared forever.<\/p>\n<p>I clicked the Back button, but the page just refreshed. No help from the cache. The comment was gone. And worse, I have no idea whether marking Steve as spam means that he&#8217;ll go on some blacklist, never to work in Hollywood again. I hope not.<\/p>\n<p>Steve, if you&#8217;re reading this, please come back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a ton of spam comments to this blog. I don&#8217;t know why. I don&#8217;t get very many real comments, but somehow the spammers hit me with about 80 a week. So I have moderation set. If you&#8217;ve commented before, then you can comment again without having to wait for moderation. But if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}