{"id":13449,"date":"2010-11-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/11\/25\/when-spambots-go-awry.html"},"modified":"2010-11-25T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T04:03:10","slug":"when-spambots-go-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/11\/25\/when-spambots-go-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"When spambots go awry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spambots that post comment spam in blogs apparently have a synonym system: they take a piece of text, and they substitute in synonyms for a bunch of the words and phrases in order to make it harder for automated spam defense systems to detect the spam.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes the automated synonym replacements are a little overzealous, and you end up with something kind of akin to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower\/y.html\">Secret Yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: today I noticed a spam comment that a bot had posted in my blog that referred to a certain major annual event as the &ldquo;San Diego Comic minus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spambots that post comment spam in blogs apparently have a synonym system: they take a piece of text, and they substitute in synonyms for a bunch of the words and&#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":[22,21,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-spam","category-synonyms-antonyms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","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=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}