{"id":3229,"date":"2011-01-26T22:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2011-01-26T22:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:47:43","slug":"changes-to-the-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>If you have not been to the forum in a while, chances are you were avoiding it like the plague due to the influx of spam&#8230;well, that&#8217;s a good excuse if you&#8217;ve forgotten that it exists ^_^ <\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to keep it clean as I possibly could to make the experience more enjoyable for you when reading. But lately, it has gotten much worse with the amount of spam that has been posted. So, I changed all the user settings and locked down boards to reduce\/prevent spam from infiltrating the actual boards people want to read. I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t do this sooner&#8230;maybe I was trying to be too nice.<\/p>\n<p>If you have posted at least once on the forum, you will notice that your account is now a &#8220;Forum Member&#8221;. Your forum experience should be unchanged. <\/p>\n<p>If you have been a (legitimate) registered user on the site, but you have never posted anything, I&#8217;m sorry, but, your account has been deleted. With over 2000 &#8220;registered users&#8221;, it was hard to distinguish between actual readers and spam, so, I deleted everyone. Please feel free to register again, and even ask to be promoted to a Forum Member&#8230;even if you do not plan to make posts.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/smf\/\" target=_blank>the forum<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have not been to the forum in a while, chances are you were avoiding it like the plague due to the influx of spam&#8230;well, that&#8217;s a good excuse if you&#8217;ve forgotten that it exists ^_^ I have been trying to keep it clean as I possibly could to make the experience more enjoyable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-from-kirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3230,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wowrpc.waddellconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}