Help I have been accused of spamming
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I recently had trouble posting comments on other blogs. I discovered also that somehow my settings on my blog comments had altered. When I re-set my comment settings everything was fine. I was then looking up others who had visited or signed up for my blog. One recent visitor had a post complaining about what seemed to be the same problem. I provided him with the information about comment settings. The next day when I checked around he had a new post where he claimed that I was the problem and that I was a spammer. I was confounded because i could not communicate with him – I was blocked. Since we share some of the same visitors I posted -Help I have been Accused . A number of regulars contacting me saying that they had no problem with my comments or they had run into similar issues altered setting on their own blogs. I am sure that this is a glitch of some kind, but the blogger in question has spread his mistaken belief-misunderstanding through his blog.I am not looking for revenge or huge war of words I just want things cleared up and make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else. . Thanks.Help I have been Accused
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I discovered also that somehow my settings on my blog comments had altered. When I re-set my comment settings everything was fine.
No change to any comment settings on your own blog can possibly result in any change to any other blog with one exception and that’s the blog linked to your userbane in comments you leave on other blogs.
1. enabling and disabling comments on your own blog
This page > Settings > Discussion
Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
We can also override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any post or page.2. changing the primary blog linked to your username
The only change you can make that effects other blogs at all is changing the blog linked to your username. In that case all comments previously made will still be linked to the original blog linked to the username as the chnage is not retroactive. The comments you leave after the chnage will be linked to the new primary blog that you set.Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to Account Details. Then scroll down to where it says ‘Website‘ select the URL for your primary wordpress.com blog and then save changes. Then every time you sign into the forum we can all click on your username and your blog will be linked to it. And every time you leave a comment on a blog your username can be likewise clicked and your blog can be instantly located.
3. blocking and deleteing WordPress.com subscribers and commenters
There is no means of “blocking” or “deleting” subscribers to free hosted WordPress.com blogs with the visibility setting of “public“. And it sounds to me like the other blogger and you are using spam designations and or blacklisting inappropriately. Spam is for viagra ads and the like. It’s not a designation we slap on other bloggers whose comments we don’t like. Those we simply designate as Trash.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. They can submit comments but you can Moderate all comments and choose which ones to approve or not.
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. 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 to individual conmputers, and you may end up blocking legitimate visitors, beacuse ISPs have been placing hundreds of us in the same IP block to save money for a decade or more now.
In addition it’s an exercsise in futility as many have dynamic (ever chnaging IPs) and any troll can get another IP in no time as 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.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklistI suggest is to set your blog so that first time commenters are held in moderation until the first comment is approved, then from that point forward they will not need approval. Settings > Discussion. The next step beyond that is to set your discussion page up so that all comments are held in moderation until approved.
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I already do have my setting for first time commenters are held in moderation. I have used this setting from the start. The only spam I have gotten has been the type you describe. I have never had a need to block/identify as spam any regular user commenter. I suspect the other blogger saw my comment in moderated setting and for some reason decided that it was contributing to spam. He then posted this on his blog and identified me as spammer. He will not accept comments from because they are marked as spam. I have no way of explaining this to him or correcting the false statement. Thanks.
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Any blogger who inappropriately marks another blogger’s comments as spam and/or blacklists them is not worth bothering about. I would shun it and move on.
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Thanks for your help and advice. When I first started blogging a while back your help was , as now, greatly appreciated.
Since the problem and your recommendations are now on record here on the forum, I feel free to let the matter rest. It is unfortunate that something like this would arise out of a misunderstanding of WordPress settings & communications protocols. Thanks again.
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