{"id":184,"date":"2004-07-16T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T02:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2004-07-16T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2004-07-17T02:55:33","slug":"movable-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"cmmts\" \/><span class=\"commenthidden\" id=\"c109003328258947828\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogComments\">COMMENTS<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-transform: uppercase\" align=\"right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=3862238&#038;postID=109003328258947828\" class=\"comment-link\" ><font color=\"#000000\">Post a Comment<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alonsofamily.net\/\" name=\"109002412334039675\" \/><a  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Mom and Dad&#8217;s website<\/font><\/a> has suffered major comment spam in the last few months.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been really lazy to do something about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Movable Type<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s their Achilles&#8217; heel, so to speak.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess it&#8217;s an easy hack.\u00c2\u00a0 Bots just swarm and post one worthless message after another.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re like me, who doesn&#8217;t really check comments regularly, then it takes months before you even detect the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I finally got around to installing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/comment_spam\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">MT-Blacklist<\/font><\/a> and it works great!\u00c2\u00a0 I had problems adding the master blacklist at first because I wanted to add it all in one shot and the list was just too long.\u00c2\u00a0 I chopped it up into bite-sited sections (I love cut-and-paste) and finally got my blacklist going.\u00c2\u00a0 That should be the end of the comment spam (for now, at least, until the bad guys figure out a way around the blacklist).<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Jay Allen<\/font><\/a> is my savior! \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENTS Post a Comment Mom and Dad&#8217;s website has suffered major comment spam in the last few months.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been really lazy to do something about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel really guilty too because the fix was pretty simple. I mean, comment spam has been an ongoing problem for Movable Type.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s their Achilles&#8217; heel, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}