Spam comments despite required login
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Hi all,
Every now and then I see comments in my blog's moderation queue that look like this:
But I also have this option turned on:
So how on earth do these comments get through?
Any ideas?
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@Gwen-Dragon That's my usual first thought, but in this case there are no recent new users with the name "Google".
Maybe the users registered, but never logged in to the forum first... In which case it makes it difficult for me to report them.
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@Gwen-Dragon Yes, I see that now. The username isn't attached to a forum user.
Your test does give me an email address though - so I could report that and have the account blocked that way, which the other spam did not give.
[edit] I do have an IP address, so maybe if I passed that on, the vivaldi admins could use that to determine the account in use and block it that way.
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@Gwen-Dragon Will do.
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Yup, I get them too...
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Seems this is related to "pingbacks" - these can be turned off in the discussion settings.
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@LonM Yeah, I have that turned off, but I still get them from time to time.
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