{"id":3057,"date":"2012-03-22T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2012-03-22T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T15:07:58","slug":"swling-post-update-good-news-comments-are-now-open-without-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/swling-post-update-good-news-comments-are-now-open-without-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"SWLing Post Update: Good news–comments are now open without registration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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...well, at least your comments...<\/p><\/div>\n

After being approached by a few readers, we have decided to lift the requirement to become a registered user on the SWLing Post in order to post comments. Now you can post comments without the added\u00a0hassle. If you’re interested, \u00a0the reason we implemented this requirement in the early days of the blog had to do with the enormous amount of SPAM comments we received daily–literally 40+ per day! It was simply taking too much time to filter and SPAM plug-ins were (at that time) not up to the task.<\/p>\n

So, feel free to comment! \u00a0We’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After being approached by a few readers, we have decided to lift the requirement to become a registered user on the SWLing Post in order to post comments. Now you can post comments without the added\u00a0hassle. If you’re interested, \u00a0the reason we implemented this requirement in the early days of the blog had to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[854],"tags":[997,755,996],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-comments","tag-swling-post","tag-swling-post-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Nj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/swling-post-comments-some-getting-lost-in-our-spam-folder\/","url_meta":{"origin":3057,"position":0},"title":"SWLing Post comments…some getting lost in our SPAM folder?","author":"Thomas","date":"December 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The SWLing Post has been online since 2008--plenty of time for SPAMbots to focus their attention on us! 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