{"id":299,"date":"2008-06-28T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-06-28T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T21:50:07","slug":"if-you-dont-see-your-comment-despair-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#8217;t see your comment, despair not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of reactivating my blog, I&#8217;ve had to grovel through over 160,000 back comments over 99% of which were blog spam.  I&#8217;ve been doing this by skimming 500-comment chunks of the back list (it&#8217;s normally 20, but I know where to hack the WordPress code to change that).  In the process, I have almost certainly made some errors.<\/p>\n<p>So if you submitted a comment recently and have not seen it published, don&#8217;t assume that you&#8217;ve hit a mechanical spam filter or that I&#8217;m purposely deleting your posts.  I may have deleted some by accident while skimming.  I apologize, and devoutly hope you will never find yourself having to filter that much spam by eyeball.<\/p>\n<p>(And before you ask: Yes, WordPress&#8217;s tools for the job are both weak when they work and buggy in crucial spots.  WordPress looks nice but the more I get to know the PHP codebase the less I like what I see.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of reactivating my blog, I&#8217;ve had to grovel through over 160,000 back comments over 99% of which were blog spam. I&#8217;ve been doing this by skimming 500-comment chunks of the back list (it&#8217;s normally 20, but I know where to hack the WordPress code to change that). In the process, I have almost&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=299\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you don&#8217;t see your comment, despair not&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}