Title: Can’t stop Anonymous comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Can’t stop Anonymous comments

 *  Resolved [windsorscannerwatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windsorscannerwatch/)
 * (@windsorscannerwatch)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/)
 * I’m using WP 1.5.2 and I have things checked in the dashboard like this under
   options/discussion:
 * # An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)
   #
   Comment author must fill out name and e-mail # Comment author must have a previously
   approved comment
 * I have all three of those checked off, yet I still get people leaving anonymous
   comments. I’ve tried everything to block anonymous comments but nothing seems
   to work. I want only registered users to be able to comment. I’m using the template
   Fastback also.
 * Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304843)
 * You must have a “ghost” user. Check the users’ list and delete it.
 *  Thread Starter [windsorscannerwatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windsorscannerwatch/)
 * (@windsorscannerwatch)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304846)
 * I got a bad comment from a new registered user today even, so I deleted the user,
   and it said that when i do this all the users comments will be deleted as well,
   but his comment is still there. Nothing seems to work at all in managing comments.
 * I do have a user with no name, which is me from when i imported my posts from
   typepad. If I delete that user though I will likely lose many of my posts since
   I imported 154 posts from that.
 * So not sure what you mean as a ‘ghost user’?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304852)
 * When I go to your blog it says to me “You are logged in as .” And I have never
   visited your site before. That’s why anybody can post.
 *  Thread Starter [windsorscannerwatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windsorscannerwatch/)
 * (@windsorscannerwatch)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304859)
 * How can I fix this then? I also have this checked:
 * Allow people to post comments on the article
 * Does that mean let anyone? I could try to uncheck that, then maybe it will just
   let registered users. I wish the dashboard was more clear about some things.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304862)
 * I still think the problem is with the users. I remember similar issues here in
   the forum…
    here we go, I found it: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/26503?replies=9](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/26503?replies=9)
 * [I googled for “site:wordpress.org/support anonymous comments”]
 *  Thread Starter [windsorscannerwatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windsorscannerwatch/)
 * (@windsorscannerwatch)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304864)
 * Could of been the user I imported with then since it had no name listed. I gave
   it a name now, so hopefully it will work. I’m just afraid to delete that user
   since it holds a lot of my posts. I will have to wait and see if this fixes the
   problem. Thanks.

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 * [anonymous](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/anonymous/)
 * [blocking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blocking/)

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 * Last reply from: [windsorscannerwatch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/windsorscannerwatch/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-stop-anonymous-comments/#post-304864)
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