{"id":828,"date":"2018-05-29T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:57:53","slug":"another-way-to-inconvenience-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/another-way-to-inconvenience-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Another way to inconvenience spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two posts in particular on here receive almost all the comment spam.\u00a0 I have changed them both to say &#8220;<em>Do not post comments here, they will be spam-trapped<\/em>&#8221; which should prevent mortals falling foul of the mechanisms attached to those two posts.<\/p>\n<p>I tried an experiment the other day and made them password-protected.\u00a0 So the link the spammers use to get to those pages still works, but they cannot post anything.\u00a0 This has &#8211; for the time being &#8211; stopped much of the spam.<\/p>\n<p>I expect in due course they will just pick another ppst and target that instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two posts in particular on here receive almost all the comment spam.\u00a0 I have changed them both to say &#8220;Do not post comments here, they will be spam-trapped&#8221; which should prevent mortals falling foul of the mechanisms attached to those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/another-way-to-inconvenience-spammers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46,119],"tags":[120,140,22],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hosting-woes","category-spam","category-wordpress","tag-hosting-woes","tag-spam","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}