{"id":215,"date":"2008-12-23T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T00:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/commnt-overflow-temporarily-halted\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T05:08:56","slug":"commnt-overflow-temporarily-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/commnt-overflow-temporarily-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment overflow (temporarily) halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sorting through the overwhelming mass of spam comments I&#8217;ve been getting, I figured out that most of them were attached to one of two or three old posts &#8212; presumably posts with keywords or PageRank that the spammers liked. It didn&#8217;t look like closing comments on those was going to be a huge issue, so I did, and the comment level is back down to normal and I&#8217;m able to find and approve new legitimate commenters. I&#8217;ll probably keep doing that periodically to keep the volume level down, at least until I change hosts\/upgrade WordPress and can install Akismet or some other actual effective spam-catcher.<\/p>\n<p>So, sorry if I threw any of your comments away; try again if you were having issues and I should be able to approve you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sorting through the overwhelming mass of spam comments I&#8217;ve been getting, I figured out that most of them were attached to one of two or three old posts &#8212; presumably posts with keywords or PageRank that the spammers liked. It didn&#8217;t look like closing comments on those was going to be a huge issue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}