{"id":73,"date":"2004-12-26T21:30:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-26T21:30:26","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T21:30:26","slug":"comments-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/12\/26\/comments-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments Back On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned comments back on after doing some research of the most recent hack attack to hit Calvert Games.  This time it was not personal.  That was actually a relief.  Some form of a nasty spambot left all sorts of casino comments \u2013 I guess the hacker of the spambot gets referral fees or something if someone clicks on their links.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that I know it was not a vicious sort of personal attack, I have decided to re-enable comments.  Of course if I get hit again I will have to take different measures such as only allow registered users to post.  At this point I do not see any real benefit to having registered users, but I guess that could change down the road.<\/p>\n<p>For those users that also have a blog that uses nucleus, here is the plug-in\/fix I have used to (hopefully) reduce spam attacks in the future:  <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.nucleuscms.org\/viewtopic.php?t=5300\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/forum.nucleuscms.org\/viewtopic.php?t=5300', 'NP_Blacklist');\" target=new>NP_Blacklist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is to keeping my fingers crossed that future comments are meaningful and not full of spam!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned comments back on after doing some research of the most recent hack attack to hit Calvert Games. This time it was not personal. That was actually a relief. Some form of a nasty spambot left all sorts of casino comments \u2013 I guess the hacker of the spambot gets referral fees or something &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/12\/26\/comments-back-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comments Back On<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}