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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Page comments without a form?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-comments-without-a-form/)
 *  Thread Starter [jsbarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbarrett/)
 * (@jsbarrett)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-comments-without-a-form/#post-4921262)
 * Thanks. I was already planning on contacting these folks. I just wanted to know
   if there was any possible way for their comments to have been submitted without
   a form being on the page, like through some little-known back door method.
 * While chatting just now with the person who runs the ranch, I was told that they“
   forgot” that there were comments allowed before, and they were just recently 
   disabled. Nice to get that info after spending hours trying to track down what
   I thought was a bug in the system. *sigh* Thanks for your help and patience.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Page comments without a form?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-comments-without-a-form/)
 *  Thread Starter [jsbarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsbarrett/)
 * (@jsbarrett)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-comments-without-a-form/#post-4921221)
 * Having waded through hundreds of comments over the years, I’m pretty confident
   in my ability to spot real comments vs pseudo-real comments. In the case of the
   few that I isolated yesterday, here’s the evidence that I see that tells me that
   they’re real:
    - In the form data submitted, _none_ of them include a backlink to another web
      site. They only have an email address.
    - Two of the email addresses are tied to a local school.
    - The comments all make very specific reference to services that are provided
      by my employer: horse camps, trail rides, etc. The following are some examples:
 * > Hello, I was wanting to check your availability on your camps this summer in
   > June? For two children. Thank you,
   > Jennifer
 * > I found you guys through GROUPON that was sent to my email address. I am interested
   > in enrolling my son in the Horseriding course. He is 9 years old and we would
   > be able to attend the June 30-Jul 4th course, as I teach summer school and …
   > can’t break away any sooner. Thanks for chatting with me on the phone this 
   > morning!
   >  Have a blessed day!
 * > What days are the trail rides? Is there one available this Friday, April, 11,
   > 2014?
 * > Hi, I was considering getting groupon deal for 4 people. Since we live an hour
   > away from there, we were wondering about if there would be trail rides schedule
   > on weekdays starting on March10th~14th (Spring Break)? Do we need to make reservation?
 * Re: the Groupon references in a couple of those comments, a large portion of 
   the business that the ranch gets comes from a Groupon offer. This deal isn’t 
   mentioned anywhere on the site, which means that those comments couldn’t come
   from spammers mining the site for random data they can use to make a comment 
   sound legit.
 * If that’s not enough evidence, I looked up the IP addresses recorded with these
   comments. Almost all of them come from hosts in Texas from what I can see. We’re
   a Texas-based company, so that lends further credence to my theory.
 * Part of my concern, as you can imagine, is that people are sending these comments
   in and expecting a reply, but as far as I know nobody saw these comments until
   I found them yesterday. That means we’ve got potentially-dissatisfied customers
   out there, and I want to prevent that from happening in the future.

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