Anyway to ban people from commenting?

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  gavilan1010 · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 3:21 am

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  I have lots of spammers, and they all get into my comments, anyway I can prohibit that ?

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  lloydbudd · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 3:31 am

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  By marking their comments as spam Akismet will learn.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 4:04 am

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  Gavilan, your blog is at Blogspot. What are you doing here???

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  mkrwp · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 1:07 pm

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  raincoaster: He may be evaluating wordpress for a move. :P

  I have my own webhosting and have 100% control over _everything_, and am giving serious consideration to moving my blog completely to wordpress hosting. It rocks _that_ much.

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  axewielderx · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 6:06 pm

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  When you are in the writing area,on the right hand side are option panels.One of them allows you to turn of commenting.

  I think also from the dashboard-options-discussion you can turn off commenting completely.

  I would suggest trying to train Akismet 1st before using these other options.

  Seems like I have seen a blog here with that name also.Perhaps they are just testing out WordPress.co

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 25, 2006 at 8:27 pm

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  Sorry, jumped to conclusions.

  Akismet is really amazing at catching spam. The biggest problem I have with it is that once every four months or so it lists me as spam too and I have to unspam myself, which is a two-click operation.