{"id":3120,"date":"2013-04-25T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2023-09-10T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:29:46","slug":"blocking-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2013\/04\/25\/blocking-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocking China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nothing personal, not at all. But since yesterday both Out of Ambit and the new WordPress writing-stuff blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www dianeduane.com\/a-writers-daybook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eating Paper<\/a> (which I haven&#8217;t even put up a link to as yet, must fix that&#8230;) have been getting a blizzard of incoming trackback spam from Chinese sources. (Indian too, but way fewer of those.) As a result, for the immediate future I&#8217;m blocking everything from the .cn and .tw top-level domains. (And also Guatemala. Seriously, why? Well, I don&#8217;t care.) Doubtless this too will pass. In the meantime it&#8217;s just an annoyance.<\/p>\n<p>The only good thing about this has been that some of the earnest-sounding, I-want-you-to-approve-this-comment text that comes with these things is so hilarious. Get this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to comprehend when you write this article is what kind of mood, why would you write this article, also written so good, is that I can emulate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, by all means. Or:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am fond of your article.Your article is like a big tree, so that we can be seated in your tree, feel yourself a real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m flattered but I wouldn&#8217;t presume to attempt the latter: certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/thesherlockfandom.tumblr.com\/post\/47741435622\/what-is-im-the-real\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only Benedict\u00a0 Cumberbatch may properly inhabit that lofty eminence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230; this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This article made me effulge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(deep breath)<\/p>\n<p>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Bye bye China&#8230; gonna miss you for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(effulge&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nothing personal, not at all. 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