I’ve been waiting for this day. I’ve read about comment spam. I see the features in WordPress to help deal with comment spam, but I didn’t enable any of them. Before today, I hadn’t been hit with any.<\/p>\n
In case you didn’t know, comment spam is when a program automatically posts comments (of somewhat random text) to various web logs just so that the comment entries will link back to their site. Google believes that sites with many links to them are important and will rate them higher, particularly if you’re searching on the same text someone used to link to the site. So, these programs (called spambots) will post dozens of random quotations as comments on web logs with the name of “free online gambling” and their url. This way, your web log will have links like free online gambling<\/a>, boosting their Google pagerank. (Except that I changed that url, just out of spite.)<\/p>\n I enjoyed this opportunity to implement the Jeremy Comment Spam Filtering TechniqueTM<\/sup>. The problem with wide-spread spam filtering techniques is that spammers know about them and work around them. The best spam filters are the ones that the spammers don’t know about — the ones without wide distribution. Thus, I believe that my home-grown, implemented-in-60-seconds spam-filter will be superior to anything that WordPress can come up with, simply because it’s not good enough for everyone else to use. Ironic, no?<\/p>\n And, if you’d like to comment on this post, you can see what I came up with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been waiting for this day. I’ve read about comment spam. I see the features in WordPress to help deal with comment spam, but I didn’t enable any of them. Before today, I hadn’t been hit with any. In case you didn’t know, comment spam is when a program automatically posts comments (of somewhat random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}