{"id":3895,"date":"2020-06-04T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:43:12","slug":"change-in-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/change-in-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started dealing with about 1,000 spam comments a day. It&#8217;s a nuisance. And, more to the point, takes time that I would very much rather spend researching and writing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve made minor changes in how A Catholic Citizen in America&#8217;s software handles comments.<\/p>\n<p>Minor at my end, that is.<\/p>\n<p>If you leave a comment \u2014 thank you! \u2014 you won&#8217;t see it immediately. Among other things, I&#8217;ve arranged for <strong>all<\/strong> comments to be manually approved. That may be frustrating for you, and a little more work for me. But if it reduces the flow of spam, it&#8217;ll be worth it: from my viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Changes I made today are not set in stone. I&#8217;ve started a &#8216;how to deal with spam&#8217; file, and am ascending a learning curve on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by, and now I&#8217;ll get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started dealing with about 1,000 spam comments a day. It&#8217;s a nuisance. And, more to the point, takes time that I would very much rather spend researching and writing. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve made minor changes in how A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/change-in-comments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[154,192],"tags":[13,190,12],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-blogging","tag-information-technology","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-10P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}