{"id":181,"date":"2004-04-02T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/04\/an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers\/"},"modified":"2004-04-02T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T11:12:13","slug":"an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/04\/an-open-letter-to-comment-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter To Comment Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all those who leave comments advertising pill suppliers, adult sites, and yes, even zip code look-up sites on my blog:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you have anything better to do with your pathetic little lives than to leave strange comments with inappropriate links on my personal blog?  My blog readership isn&#8217;t that big.  And I sincerely doubt any of the people who actually <i>read<\/i> my blog are stupid enough to click on your links.  As far as Google ranking goes, I delete the comments long before Google could ever possibly see those links.  All you are doing is wasting your time&#8230;and mine.  And I honestly don&#8217;t care if you waste your own time, but I have better things to do with my time than to clean up the graffiti you post on my site.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll ask nicely: stop spamming me.  I&#8217;ll find a way to prevent it anyway, even if you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nA Frustrated Blog Owner<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Now, to all those who leave nice, friendly comments on my blog &#8211; or even unfriendly comments, as long as they are relevant:<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t stop commenting!  And thank you for letting me vent!  Since I delete these things before most people see them, you have no idea how much of this goes on &#8211; and I intend to keep it that way &#8211; but to give you an idea, I have deleted hundreds of comments with inappropriate content from this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Movable Type 3.0 is going to come out soon, and I am probably going to implement a registration system.  That doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t comment if you don&#8217;t register, but your comments will be queued for review.  I really hate to do this to my regular visitors, but I&#8217;ve got to stop this somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all those who leave comments advertising pill suppliers, adult sites, and yes, even zip code look-up sites on my blog: Don&#8217;t you have anything better to do with your pathetic little lives than to leave strange comments with inappropriate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}