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1. chaaban
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   How come i'm receiving spam comments (2.0)

   and i have them disabled + a user must register to comment ??

   still i'm receiving a lot of spam comments ....

2. Ellwangen
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   There are sripts to avoid spam e.g.
   http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/

3. Viper007Bond
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Bad Behavior won't stop comment spam per se, it's just mostly meant to block bad bots from your site.

   Use the plugin that comes with WordPress, Akismet or Spam Karma 2. Both work quite well.

4. danatnr
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I may have the same problem as chaaban.

   I have the option "User must be registered" to comment turned ON in Options > General Options > User must be registered to comment. This used to result me getting asked to approve a user before someone could submit a comment.

   Unfortunately I'm now getting comments from a spammer without getting asked to approve the user. I have searched up and down for this user in my user list so that I can delete it, but I don't seem to have the guy in my user list. I should be getting an email that says "Please approve so-and-so..." but I'm not.

   I loaded my single post page in IE and it says, You must be logged in to post. That looks good. So my confusion lies in how does he submit comments without logging in? Is this a bug that just got found?

   I've activated Akismet. That does help, but I'm wondering if a bug isn't being exploited somehow.

   Thanks!

5. amits
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I turn off the registration feature but I installed spam karma2 and that worked a treat for me!

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