{"id":298,"date":"2006-10-09T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=298"},"modified":"2006-10-09T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T21:39:15","slug":"comments-re-enabled-timcexxorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Comments re-enabled (tim.cexx.org)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have posted comments to my blog, only to see them (or not see them) disappear into the aether, take heart! Comments are active again. I guess they were never technically &#8220;disabled&#8221;, in the sense that attempting to post comments would return an error; instead of immediately posting they were just held in a queue for moderation, which rather than flag a few <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=177\">dozen spam comments each day<\/a> for the one valid comment every couple months or so, I just gave up bothering with.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the 3-day weekend gave me a chance to do some necessary blog-software-updating and incorporate a spam filter. I&#8217;m currently going through the massive backlog of comment spam and approving the valid ones. From here on, comments posted to tim.cexx.org should appear immediately, as long as there&#8217;s nothing vaguely suspect about them (e.g. URLs in the body, discussion of poker\/pharmaceuticals, posted from an open proxy, etc.). Posters of vaguely suspicious comments might be asked to complete one of those annoying <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">CAPTCHA<\/a>s before the comment gets posted.<\/p>\n<p>(Comments on the LJ account are of course not affected by any of this; with <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=238\">few exceptions<\/a> the entire world can post to it anonymously again.)<\/p>\n<p>(And the world wonders what nerds do on their weekends&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have posted comments to my blog, only to see them (or not see them) disappear into the aether, take heart! Comments are active again. I guess they were never technically &#8220;disabled&#8221;, in the sense that attempting to post comments would return an error; instead of immediately posting they were just held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}