{"id":1734,"date":"2004-05-04T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2004-05-04T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T14:09:28","slug":"craptracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Craptracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple tools and links for people who are having problems with creeps in their comments.  I got the idea from Wil Wheaton over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/index.php\">wilwheaton.net<\/a> (yes, <b>that<\/b> Wil Wheaton).  He&#8217;s been having some problems with creeps posting crap in his comments&#8230;  It&#8217;s gotten bad enough that he&#8217;s offered a $1000 bounty, and I figured I&#8217;d share some of the tools I use here.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst and foremost, there&#8217;s MT-Blacklist:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/\">http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/projects\/mt-blacklist\/<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nThis is really handy&#8230; Not only for blocking people from posting certain URLs, but also for finding them in existing comments and scrubbing them out.  It&#8217;ll also give you the IP address of whoever was posting comments.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s AWStats:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/awstats.sourceforge.net\/\">http:\/\/awstats.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><br \/>\nLog file analysis is both fun <b>and<\/b> useful.  It&#8217;s fun to see that folks from India and the Netherlands have been visiting&#8230; Plus I&#8217;ve used it to find a couple folks who&#8217;ve &#8216;borrowed&#8217; my pictures without crediting me.<\/p>\n<p>Geobytes<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geobytes.com\/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation\">http:\/\/www.geobytes.com\/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation<\/a><br \/>\nThis one is actually a little bit scary.  It gives the physical location of an IP address&#8230;  It&#8217;s kind of big-brotherish.  On the other hand, if people are posting seriously vile stuff in your comments, this will let you know which police department would have jurisdiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple tools and links for people who are having problems with creeps in their comments. I got the idea from Wil Wheaton over at wilwheaton.net (yes, that Wil Wheaton). He&#8217;s been having some problems with creeps posting crap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-technical-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}