{"id":40,"date":"2005-02-20T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2005-02-20T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T22:33:58","slug":"captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2005\/02\/20\/captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Captcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my struggle against comment-spam&#8230; I just installed a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">captcha<\/a>&#8221; plug-in, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudlyf.com\/index.php?p=376\">AuthImage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Try to add a comment, you&#8217;ll see the captcha in action.  Personally, I&#8217;m finding some of these captchas rather difficult to read myself, they are often rather off-centre in the image and chopped off at the bottom.  But if they keep that online-poker shit-head out of my moderation queue (by himself, he accounts for 90% of my comment-moderation workload), then it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Captchas are not an effective solution for &#8220;trackback&#8221; spam, but I have not enabled that at all.  I don&#8217;t really know what RSS, trackbacks and pingbacks are all about.  Can&#8217;t be bothered with any of it.  I think I&#8217;ll allow pings on this post, just to see what happens.  They will, of course, go into moderation as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my struggle against comment-spam&#8230; I just installed a &#8220;captcha&#8221; plug-in, called AuthImage. Try to add a comment, you&#8217;ll see the captcha in action. Personally, I&#8217;m finding some of these captchas rather difficult to read myself, they are often rather off-centre in the image and chopped off at the bottom. But if they keep that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}