email addresses of people reading my posts
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Hi, someone is reading large quantities of my posts at one time, and it may be someone who does not wish me well. I need to see the email addresses of the people reading my posts. How can I do this?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can’t. If you don’t want your blog to be available to everyone online then simply make it private and you can control who visits it.
All support docs are found here http://support.wordpress.com
Type “privacy settings” into the search box and get this http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=privacy+settings
Results here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . -
Your stats are here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/
Your WordPress.com followers are here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers
Your email only subscribers are here http://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=emailMark 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/
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/
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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Thanks, this is helpful, but what I really want to know is, can I KNOW the emails addresses of the people reading my blog? Is this captured somewhere?
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Millions can view your posts and you will have no email addresses for them. Why do you think are entitled to them? What exactly would you do with them? There is no mass emailing campaign support here if you were intending to set up for that purpose.
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