Blocking IP Addresses

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    kavsquires · Member ·

    Is there a way for me to do this for a specific address?

    Thanks!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    No and even if you could it would not be effective. Many of us have dynamic (ever changing) IPs. WordPress.com will not block IPs. Knowing how to deal with a deluge of annoying or negative comments from off-beat subscribers and commenters comes with the territory of being a blogger. They cannot trigger your emotions, unless you allow them to do so.

    All WordPress blogs have RSS Feeds built-in and we cannot stop anyone from subscribing to those RSS Feeds in a feed reader on any blog set to “public” visibility, nor can we remove anyone once they have subscribed. Unless you change the Site Visibility options (Privacy Settings), the same goes for subscribing to comments, category feeds and tag feeds.

    You can Blacklist an IP but I don’t recommend doing that as it’s a scatter gun appraoch. ISPs place hundreds of us in the same IP block so to stop having to mark the comments from one person as spam you could be sensing hundreds of others legitimate comments in the same IP block to the spam filter.

    Comment Blacklist – Also note on this same page > Settings > Discussion you have the ability to comment blacklist. This will send all comments from that individual directly into your spam queue.

    If you have a subscriber you do not wish to post any comments from then you can set up comment moderation up on this page > Settings > Discussion. Then you can screen comments and mark them as “trash” or “spam”, if indeed they are spam.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

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