{"id":5640,"date":"2013-04-10T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/caught-in-the-spam-trap\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:33:54","slug":"caught-in-the-spam-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/caught-in-the-spam-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught in the Spam Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/spamtrap.png' alt='spamtrap.png' class='right' \/>I sometimes just have to laugh at some of the weird sh!t that gets caught in the spam trap here. We have been using a no-longer-supported plug-in called Spam Karma. Regardless of the non-support, it still does a real good job of eliminating an estimated 99.9 percent of spam comments.<\/p>\n<p>The plug-in can be set to email some of the lower-score items to the webmaster.  As I said in the first paragraph, some of them can be pretty funny, especially if the spammer is using his whatever-to-English translation software. This one came into the other blog this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I discovered your blog webpage on google and check some of your early posts. Continue to maintain up the extremely beneficial operate. I just additional up your RSS feed to my MSN News Reader. Searching for forward to reading alot more from you later on!<\/p>\n<p>(redacted vendor they were pushing) <\/p>\n<p>Spam Karma 2 Report:<br \/>\n   -0.43 &#8211; Link Counter: Comment contains: 1 linked URLs and 0 unlinked URLs: total link coef: 1 >= threshold (1). Non-URL text size: 289 chars.<br \/>\n   -4.00 &#8211; Stopwatch: Flash Gordon was here (comment posted 11 seconds after page load).<br \/>\n  -20.00 &#8211; Javascript Payload: Fake Javascript Payload.<br \/>\n   -2.61 &#8211; Post Age and Activity: Entry posted 1 week, 6 days ago. 0 comments in the past 5 days. Current Karma: -24.<br \/>\n   -1.00 &#8211; core: Severity settings adjustment.<br \/>\n========<br \/>\n  -28.04 &#8211; Overall Karma<br \/>\n========\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL &#8211; <em>Searching for forward to reading alot more from you later on!<\/em> \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes just have to laugh at some of the weird sh!t that gets caught in the spam trap here. We have been using a no-longer-supported&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}