{"id":112,"date":"2003-09-03T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/distributed-blog-modification\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T17:00:41","slug":"distributed-blog-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/distributed-blog-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"distributed blog modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some time ago,  this blog was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/blog_spam_from_tianjin_provice.html\" class=\"broken_link\">tagged<\/a>&#8221; by the now-becoming-infamous comment-spam-from-china.<\/p>\n<p>some people blocked the ip within movabletype,  <a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/archives\/2003\/08\/31\/comment_spam.php\">some<\/a> found interesting old <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/fires\/000638.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">techniques<\/a> for stopping the non-humans.  i apparently took a different approach than most people, blocking the entire network containing the offending source ip from &#8220;post&#8221; operations anywhere on the server.  this was a bit of a snap decision, but since i had only two incidents to work with, and only one ip, i figured &#8220;read but no posting&#8221; from the nice people in tianjin provice was the least offensive solution in the short term.  if anyone over there really wants to get in touch with me, well.  i&#8217;m not hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>i also contacted the host of the site that some of the blog-spam links (the site that got dumped in this blog), but it seems to be still up and functional (so much for abuse contacts).<\/p>\n<p>since then <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\">joi<\/a>&#8216;s had several more spam-comments show up, and the informal survey of offenses to date suggests they are all coming from the same network in china.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, this is turning into an interesting new phenomenon.  some time ago, i posted <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/distributed_behavior_modification.html\">this<\/a> approach i thought might be interesting to solve a less-obvious and less-intrusive &#8220;bad behavior.&#8221;  i wonder if there&#8217;s a way to extend some form of this concept to the well-inter-networked universe of the blogs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  fixed a bad link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some time ago, this blog was &#8220;tagged&#8221; by the now-becoming-infamous comment-spam-from-china. some people blocked the ip within movabletype, some found interesting old techniques for stopping the non-humans. i apparently took a different approach than most people, blocking the entire network containing the offending source ip from &#8220;post&#8221; operations anywhere on the server. this was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}