Banning Comments?
Over the past few weeks, I have had a surge in the numbers of comments. Thank you so much to you legitimate writers. Sadly, that is the key adjective, “legitimate”. As I reviewed commenters using the same words in their posts and with links in their names to ‘twilight’, ‘pornforyou’ and the like sites, I realized that I was being spammed. ::: sigh ::: Next to being afflicted with prickly heat, being afflicted with spam comments is the next step down. So I have had to add an old WordPress add-on called “WP-Ban” to control this waste of time.
If you can’t post your real, non-bot, heart-felt remarks, let me know by sending an e-mail to the address in my “about me” page. Death, taxes, and spam. The 3 things we can’t seem to avoid…
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Oh, how do I know the likes of such spam-bots. Luckily they never see the light of day outside of my ‘comments waiting to be approved’ section of my WP control panel. Askimet is there, doesn’t seem to do much but it’s there.
From what I have gathered, it seems to be related to one of the Remote Publishing options being enabled. Don’t know for sure. But given that it takes next to no time to delete ‘all spam comments’, I’m not too worried