Block email from commenting

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  acrazycowblog · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 7:22 am

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  Hi

  I have a really malicious person commenting on my posts. It is always the same email address. How can I block this person from commenting on my posts?

  Regards

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 7:30 am

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  First make sure that you have comment moderation turned on at settings > discussion to keep any comments from appearing on your site without you first approving them.

  Blocking is very difficult to do since people can change to a different internet connection (IP address) and they can always use a different email address, but you can enter their email address in the comment moderation field at settings > discussion and make sure and “save” your changes.

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  meirozavian · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 12:19 pm

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  I also had the same problem with acrazycowblog. I wonder why almost all of the comment came from companies. Do they want to advertise in my blog or what exactly happened, I really do not understand. Help me please… what should I do, I need suggestions.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 30, 2012 at 12:40 pm

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  I wonder why almost all of the comment came from companies.

  Spam?

  It really is spam

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  thesilvernail · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 11:45 pm

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  I have one person sending multiple spam comments every day. Akismet catches it as spam, but how do I block this person and have her/his comments go directly into the trash? She/he always uses the same unusual name and I could block by that, if it’s possible. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm

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  Comment Blacklist is very similar to the Comment Moderation list, but when something matches here, the comment is marked as spam instead of held for moderation.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

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  thesilvernail · Member · Feb 1, 2012 at 11:52 pm

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  As I said, these comments ARE already marked for spam. I want them to go straight in the trash because there are multiple ones every day from the same name. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 12:03 am

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  There’s no way to do that provided by our software.

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  thesilvernail · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 1:03 am

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  OK, thanks very much for answering!

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 2, 2012 at 2:28 am

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  Going directly to Spam is far better than going directly to Trash. It means the comments are detected as spam and being blocked not just on your blog but on all blogs using Akismet.

  We have lots of people who complain that the same names/content always shows up in spam and they don’t like it. To them I respond: don’t read your spam.

  You can skim it from time to time to make sure nobody’s real comment has gotten caught, but otherwise there’s no reason to look in there.