blacklisting vs. prior content
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Hello – I’ve read the support documents and a lot of forum threads re blacklisting, but one thing is still not clear to me: I’ve had a rather rude commentator show up on http://malvedos.wordpress.com. Her first nastygram I spotted within minutes of her posting and deleted, no prob. She’s made another comment overnight which someone else rather neatly addressed in a following comment, bless…. I rather like how comment number 2 put down nastygram number 1 from this creature, also #2’s nice comment specifically references nastygram #1, so would like that nastygram to remain for clarity and continuity. I just want to block this person for the future. Question: if I add the email address of this nasty creature to my blacklist, I know that will block her in future but: will blacklisting her now delete her prior comment that is still posted? is blacklisting retro-active? Yes or no? Thanks very much.
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Blacklisting will not remove the existing comment, and perhaps one thing you can do is set things so that first-time commenters go into moderation. After you approve them, then their subsequent comments will show up immediately. (settings > discussion)
Use the email address, username, and URL (if they included one) in the blacklist. Don’t use the IP address. The reason is that IP addresses anymore are not unique and you might end up blocking others that are not a problem. ISP’s now assign one IP address to many users so that they don’t have to buy more IP addresses, which costs them money.
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Sacred Path, thank you! I did have all moderation and we considered first timer, but colleagues preferred all-open. Hadn’t imagined we’d be subject to this sort of rubbish, since we don’t think we’re controversial, but… oh well. Will go fix up black list now, thank you. Looking forward to your next posting re mauna kea and more re journeying. Take care, this can be closed now (‘ll try, but last time it didn’t take, so wondered if little people like me can close or not?)
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