inappropriate names for comment users
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the user names that wordpress is giving to those making comments that are not wordpress users range from (fistfucked porno nigger) to some less distressing for me, this is a Christian site, the advertising is coming from casinos, porn sites, escort agencies, can you stop this please … judicrabtreerestore.wordpress.com
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WordPressdotcom does not assign usernames when people sign up; people choose it themselves. And those all sound like spam accounts to me.
In fact, looking at your homepage you have approved or allowed a large number of spam comments to appear. Every single one of the comments on your homepage (except yours) is spam. Spam begets spam.
Akismet is generally very good about recognizing spam and will put it in the spam folder. If you mark them as Not Spam, you allow other spammers to post to your site. Here are some resources that you will want to read to educate yourself to recognize those spam comments:
5 things every blogger should know about spam: https://docs.akismet.com/general/spam-facts/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/
About Ads:
WordPressdotcom is a family friendly site and the type of ads you’ve mentioned are not run here. Any WordPressdotcom advertising has a caption either above or below that says “About these ads.” Please run a malware check to ensure that your computer is not infected with adware or other type of malware that could cause your computer to pull up such ads. If your computer comes up clean of malware and you still see such ads, please take a screenshot and upload it to your site’s Media Library so that Staff can take a look. Not all visitors see the same ads on a site as it very much depends on a number of different factors, but none of the ads run here are of the type you mentioned.Let us know if you have any questions about any of that.
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thank you so much … I am grateful that you have shared this information with me, I am such a novice at this.
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Glad to help and you are very welcome. Your next step after reading those articles should be marking all those comments as spam (and you may wish to consider removing them from your Testimonies page as well).
Best wishes
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