Preventing spam comments

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  dimarcoimages · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 9:38 pm

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  I am getting hundreds of ‘comments,’ mostly in the form of viagra sellers. I want to eliminate all comment opportunities on my blog. Can you give me precise instructions to do so?

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

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  timethief · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 9:40 pm

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  What is the URL of the site you refer to?

  We are unable to assist unless or until you provide the site URL you refer to starting with https:// so we can verify hosting.

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  dimarcoimages · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 9:47 pm

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  http://www.frankfoodandtravel.com

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  timethief · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 9:51 pm

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  frankfoodandtravel.com is a WordPress.ORG software install hosted by GoDaddy.com, not by WordPress.COM
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  We provide support only for sites hosted on WordPress.COM servers. You are posting to the wrong support forum. Know that WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and you can read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  dimarcoimages · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 9:58 pm

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  Hi and thank you for your detailed response.

  I think I suffer from the ignorance of not knowing the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of all the WordPress combinations.

  All I know is that I am a GoDaddy.com customer and I set my http://www.frankfoodandtravel.com blog directly through the GoDaddy site.

  All I’m trying to do is eliminate these bots, etc., from adding viagra and other comments that I have to delete. Last time I looked there were over 800.

  I’m sorry I didn’t realize that WordPress.com and WordPress.org were different.
  Thanks for the advice and best regards,

  Frank

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  timethief · Member · Aug 3, 2018 at 10:01 pm

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  For WordPress.ORG software issues post to the WordPress.ORG support forums.

  The wordpress.ORG support forum is at http://wordpress.org/support.
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  If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
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