{"id":1359,"date":"2004-10-14T20:52:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T00:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2004-10-14T20:52:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T00:52:48","slug":"all-evil-not-clever-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"All evil not clever enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;ve made it when you have to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\">MT-blacklist.<\/a> I had misconfigured the bloggery here a little so that I wasn&#8217;t getting messages when comments were posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/troll\/\">the Changeling.<\/a> I thought of this, as I was translating it, as a project for children: I imagined myself reading to a six-year-old boy.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to express the disgust and feeling of violation I had when I discovered, ten days ago, that some little scumbucket had posted 50 or more ads for the usual slime into the comments of this bedtime story.<\/p>\n\n<p>So I found and installed MT-Blacklist, personalised the response to failed attempts to make it more offensive &#8212; &#8220;I hope you need all the products your selling&#8221; &#8212; and today discovered from the logs that it had beaten off 216 attempts to post crap so far this week. Thank you Jay Allen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/journey\/2004\/09\/200_things\">busy man<\/a> that you are.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;ve made it when you have to install MT-blacklist. I had misconfigured the bloggery here a little so that I wasn&#8217;t getting messages when comments were posted to the Changeling. I thought of this, as I was translating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}