Delete email subscribers

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2014 at 6:24 pm

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  @happinessweekly
  Unlike usamade who has a Private blog, your blog is a PUBLIC blog and is available to everyone with internet access. We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/

  Mark only spam as spam http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/01/24/mark-only-spam-as-spam/ and delete all troll comments. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/how-to-starve-a-troll/

  Note that you have complete control comment moderation. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation If your blog is public others can, of course, read it and they can submit comments but you can Moderate all comments and choose which ones to approve or not.

  I suggest you set your blog so that first time commenters are held in moderation until their first comment is approved, then from that point forward they will not need approval. Settings > Discussion. The next step up is to set it so that all comments are held in moderation until approved. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  For trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.

  Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.

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  happinessweekly · Member · Feb 2, 2014 at 6:32 pm

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  Thanks for your speedy reply. I understand it’s a public blog. That’s ok, I’ll check in with WordPress and see if they can do anything at the back end for me.
  Thanks xx

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2014 at 6:35 pm

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  This is the WordPress.com support forum and Staff are not going to provide an answer that in any, way shape or form is different from what I have already posted.