{"id":651,"date":"2008-11-10T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2008-11-10T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:52:32","slug":"totally-off-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/totally-off-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally off-topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I couldn&#8217;t let another big spam milestone go by without a note:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/spam5000.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So, I moved the blog to WordPress in April and hit 1000 spam comments in August. Now I&#8217;ve hit 5000 in November. This doesn&#8217;t bode well for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, one of the reasons that I posted this is to apologize in advance for any delays in the appearance of real comments. The spam-catcher is actually quite good at getting the spam, but unfortunately it also catches some non-spam from time to time. I try to check the spam queue at least twice a day, but sometimes I get a little behind and then I find that I have to wade through a couple hundred comments checking to see if there is a legitimate message buried in between the ads for drugs, pics of naked celebs and other things that I won&#8217;t mention but will leave to your imagination. (I personally I don&#8217;t care what people&#8217;s private fetishes are, but really, I don&#8217;t need some of those mental images.)<\/p>\n<p>One quick additional note &#8211; I&#8217;m going to be working at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.as.utexas.edu\/geeifc\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">science conference<\/a> for the rest of the week, so things might be a little spotty. I usually find that my days at meetings like this are quick bursts of activity sandwiched between lots of equations and plots (which is when I usually check my email since these conferences are rarely on the topics that I&#8217;m most interested in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I couldn&#8217;t let another big spam milestone go by without a note: So, I moved the blog to WordPress in April and hit 1000 spam comments in August. Now I&#8217;ve hit 5000 in November. This doesn&#8217;t bode well for the future. Actually, one of the reasons that I posted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/totally-off-topic\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}