{"id":6681,"date":"2026-04-28T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:05:09","slug":"spam-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/spam-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Prevention\/Comment Box Positioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spam Prevention Measures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent months we have seen a significant increase in the amount of spam comments received at the Clinic. Whilst many of these are automatically identified as spam, a significant proportion are held for moderation by a human, with a notification email relating to each one being sent to the Clinic staff. In an attempt to reduce the overall amount of spam, I have installed a WordPress plugin designed to identify spambots and block them at the point when they attempt to register a comment. This layer of protection should be entirely transparent to anyone other than robots (so no need for you to select all the pictures containing edentate mammals, or whatever). If, however, you experience any obstacles at all while leaving a comment, please let me know by email, using the address on the <a href=\"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positioning of Comment Box on Pages and Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the subject of comments, we had it in mind to make a site-wide change which would move the &#8216;Leave a Comment&#8217; box on pages and posts to a position directly underneath the content (ie where it currently is on a page\/post with no existing comments), thus obviating the need to scroll through the first page of comments in order to leave a new comment. If you feel strongly that this would be either a good or a bad thing, we would be grateful if you could add a comment to that effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new anti-spam plugin has been installed, and feedback is sought on a potential site-wide change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clueclinic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}