Ban a Commenter

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  hf556 · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 10:32 am

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  Hi there,
  I have the IP of the person I want to ban from commenting, but how do I do that?

  Yours Weevily,
  hf556

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 10:51 am

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  IP bans are staggeringly ineffective. Put the username in the comment Moderation box instead. http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

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  hf556 · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 9:33 am

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  Hi there,
  I have put the commenters username in the blacklist section, but his comments aren’t going through to the spam filter.

  Yours Weevily,
  hf556

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 9:37 am

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  But they’re not showing up on the blog, are they?

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  hf556 · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 9:43 am

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  No, because all comments need to be approved, by me.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 9:45 am

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  Well, that’s how the blacklist works. You’ll never see his comments again. So, is the problem not solved?

  If you want to read them, don’t put them in the blacklist box. Put them in the moderation box.

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  hf556 · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 9:52 am

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  No, but isn’t it meant to put the comments straight into spam?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 10:23 am

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  It sends them to the Dead Pool as far as I can recall, where your Spam comments go when they’re old. I think the default is that spam goes into the dead pool after two weeks. You can’t see stuff in there.

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  hf556 · Member · Nov 22, 2013 at 1:44 pm

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  But it didn’t send them to Deadpool, it asks me to approve them.