{"id":242,"date":"2006-05-19T00:16:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/05\/19\/spam-season\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T00:16:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T13:16:16","slug":"spam-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/05\/19\/spam-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image241\" alt=\"Spam Traffic by Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/spam_traffic.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it an increase is spam globally? Did OddThinking just find itself on a popular list used by spammers? Will the number ever drop again? I don&#8217;t pretend to know the answers to these.<\/p>\n<p>At least, the spammers had a nice holiday during the (Northern Hemisphere) summer months.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wordpress\/spam-karma\/\">Spam Karma<\/a> &#8211; no false negatives during this onslaught, and my skimming of the logs hasn&#8217;t found any false positives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data point for the spam-trackers: There has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking","category-geek","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}