Phony comments

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  patomalley · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 2:53 am

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  I’ve received a handful of positive comments on a couple of my posts.
  When I tried to reply to the commenters, NOT ONE OF THEM WAS A REAL EMAIL ADDRESS.
  Twitter and Facebook engage is this low-life, dishonest, lying, cheating practice.
  I closed those accounts.
  Is wordpress doing it now, too?

  I refuse to do business with liars.

  Seriously.
  I want a truthful answer to this question.
  Or I will close my account.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 3:05 am

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  You cannot close a WordPress.com account. The good news is, the site linked to your name is not WordPress.com anyway.

  Sounds to me like you’re approving, and responding to, spam. I’d advise against it.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Nov 18, 2009 at 3:36 am

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  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  Check the box that says “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”.

  That will ensure anyone leaving a comment on your blog has verified their email address.