{"id":1073,"date":"2010-08-15T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2010-08-15T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:34:12","slug":"a-note-on-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/a-note-on-comments","title":{"rendered":"A note on comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really grateful for those who take the time to comment on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Since late February, when I moved to wordpress, I&#8217;ve taken away the ability for people to comment anonymously &#8211; now when someone comments for the first time, their comment needs to be approved, and after that all their comments will go up automatically.<\/p>\n<p>This has got rid of a lot of the sniping, mean-spirited comments that used to spoil the atmosphere here a bit. Clearly the anonymous commentators aren&#8217;t prepared to have their identities made public. I&#8217;m certainly happy for people to make constructively critical comments, but they need to use their real names. And I haven&#8217;t unapproved any comments except for those which are clearly spam.<\/p>\n<p>Spam comments have been a huge problem, running at about 200 a day &#8211; it takes quite a while to go through and delete all these. For this reason, as of today, all comments will have to go through a word recognition step. I apologise for this, but spam was swamping the comment facility, and I haven&#8217;t got any other solution.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, thank you for all your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really grateful for those who take the time to comment on this blog. Since late February, when I moved to wordpress, I&#8217;ve taken away the ability for people to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}