{"id":621,"date":"2006-09-24T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T06:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=621"},"modified":"2006-09-23T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T17:37:30","slug":"stopping-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/09\/stopping-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image622\" src=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/NoSpam.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"No Spam\" style=\"float:right\"\/>Anyone who has owned a blog using some standard blogging software will have dealt with horrible spam at sometime. It&#8217;s a frustrating and time consuming annoyance, and many people give up to the torrents of spammed comments or trackbacks. Obviously there must be some economic reason for spammers to continue, but I do (and I&#8217;m sure that you too) hope they pay dearly for it in karmic retribution later in their life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried several attempts to stop spammers, but most techniques require additional work. I considered the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">Captcha<\/a> plugin, that is a popular tool many people adopt, but forces real commenters to work more (by typically reading an image and inputting some numbers or characters) and reduces the accessibility of your website. <\/p>\n<p>My most recent attempt which seems to be working (so far) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a> plugin for WordPress. For other wordpress users out there, I suggest giving it a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has owned a blog using some standard blogging software will have dealt with horrible spam at sometime. 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