Make comments private

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  nicolemarystieb · Member · Jun 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm

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  When people make comments on your blog, is there a way to make them private so only
  I can see them?
  Blog url: http://nicolemarystieb.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 11, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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  The only way is to set your blog to moderate all comments. That will greatly discourage commenters, though, since nobody likes to type their thoughts in only to see them vanish.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2012 at 6:55 pm

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  Not unless you make the entire blog private. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
  Alternatively you can leave the blog “public” and disable comments. Then you can create a page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and place a contact form on it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  All WordPress.com blogs by default have comments open on all pages and posts. This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
  We can also override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any post or page. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/