{"id":12709,"date":"2010-01-24T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/01\/24\/keyword-spam.html"},"modified":"2010-01-24T14:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:03:50","slug":"keyword-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/01\/24\/keyword-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword spam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My main blog has been receiving a lot of comment spam lately. Annoying, but the upside is that some of the comments are mildly entertaining: they're posted by a spambot that recognizes key words but doesn't know that words can have multiple meanings.<\/p>\n<p>So, for example, an entry of mine from back in 2002 has the title \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/06\/08\/468.html\">Phrase dating and the New Wave<\/a>, which contains the word \"dating.\" So a spambot posted a comment on that entry the other day that said \"Is it ok to bring flowers on a first date?\"<\/p>\n<p>And several of my entries that contain the word \"girls\" (referring to young female humans, as in \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/04\/21\/3490.html\">On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers<\/a>\") get spam comments about \"girls sex movie\" and such.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was my entry \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/09\/03\/11358.html\">Writing challenge\/exercise: Unamerican<\/a>,\" which just got a spam comment that says \"Love this blog, love fitness and life, thanks for a good read!\"&mdash;presumably because of the word \"exercise.\"<\/p>\n<p>And though this isn't quite the same thing, whenever I mention recipes, as in an entry on \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/09\/23\/1467.html\">Recipe law<\/a>,\" I get comment spam pointing me to recipe sites or saying (for example) \"I am looking for a lot of different meal ideas. If you are willing to recommand another page I would honestly appreciate it. Thank you!\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My main blog has been receiving a lot of comment spam lately. Annoying, but the upside is that some of the comments are mildly entertaining: they&#8217;re posted by a spambot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}