{"id":924,"date":"2007-02-03T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=924"},"modified":"2007-11-03T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T16:53:38","slug":"htakismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"htAkismet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/\">Augury<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/upgrading-to-wordpress-21\/\">upgraded to WordPress 2.1<\/a>, which <a href=\"?p=895\">I did<\/a> a little while ago.  Seems to have gone well.  Cinneris has also installed something called <a href=\"http:\/\/nybblelabs.org.uk\/projects\/htakismet\/\">htAkisment<\/a>, which not only detects spam but then blocks spamming IPs.  He&#8217;s curious how well this works, how much it will decrease spam, and if it blocks legit visitors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of trying it myself, although I have the same concern: I don&#8217;t want to wrongfully block legit visitors, and if it does I&#8217;ll have no way of knowing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering giving it a try, but if anyone has tried it and has any comments, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>This site now gets so much comment spam that I just can&#8217;t sort it anymore.   This means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haibane.info\/\">Fledge<\/a> can&#8217;t leave comments, since #%@# Akismet has some sort of vendetta against him.  (I speculate that perhaps his .info domain is what sets it off, but I have no way of knowing for sure.)<\/p>\n<p>Any advice before I made the leap?<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATER:<\/strong> Nobody has commented or emailed with dire warnings.  Googling around, I don&#8217;t see any dangers. I&#8217;ll probably put the thing in place on Sunday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augury has been upgraded to WordPress 2.1, which I did a little while ago. Seems to have gone well. Cinneris has also installed something called htAkisment, which not only detects spam but then blocks spamming IPs. He&#8217;s curious how well this works, how much it will decrease spam, and if it blocks legit visitors. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-spam","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}