{"id":495,"date":"2004-11-11T07:53:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T05:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2005-02-04T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:30:50","slug":"spamblocker-authimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/11\/spamblocker-authimage\/","title":{"rendered":"spamblocker: authimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got really tired of all the comment spam I&#8217;ve been getting over the past few weeks. So now, if you want to leave a comment, you have to type in a dynamically generated image! It&#8217;s a neat hack. If using a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">wordpress<\/a> blog, you can download it yourself from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudlyf.com\/index.php?p=376\">here<\/a>. Click to add a comment if you want to see what I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. scratch that. I am having temporary problems getting this to work. Try again later.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Now I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estherfuldauer.com\/2004\/11\/08\/trencaspammers-10rc-wp-plugin-anti-spam-para-wordpress\/\">this plugin<\/a>, which didn&#8217;t work either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got really tired of all the comment spam I&#8217;ve been getting over the past few weeks. So now, if you want to leave a comment, you have to type in a dynamically generated image! It&#8217;s a neat hack. If using a wordpress blog, you can download it yourself from here. Click to add a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/01\/comment-fix-its\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":0},"title":"comment fix-its","author":"nathaniel","date":"01 May 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It has come to my attention that many peops have been trying to post comments on my blog, and been booted or diallowed by my settings in my spam blocker. I can only imagine how many more have had trouble, but not bothered to let me know. I'm sorry! In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"me","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":345,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/18\/comments\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":1},"title":"comments","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Comments have now been added to my blog! Woohoo! Blogger now has it's own, free, commenting system (click the 'get a weblog' link, above, to use their free service). 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