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  casalobo · Member · Oct 15, 2023 at 4:24 pm

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  I receive spam comments from edwardlorilla2002tower every day, sometimes several times a day. But I’m not able to find the account to block it.

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  Correct account: Yes

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Oct 19, 2023 at 12:16 am

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  Hi there,

  To be sure I’ve understood, you wish to find a way to prevent this commenters messages from appearing in your moderation queue?

  Because your site is public on the internet, there is not a technical way to prevent them from commenting (IP address blocking does not work, for example) but what you can do is add to your comment blacklist, which will identify their messages and move them to the trash so you don’t have to see them: https://wordpress.com/support/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  

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  In your website’s Discussion Settings, you can control how people interact with your site through comments. This guide will explain each setting. Access Your Discussion Settings To visit the Discussion Settings: Visit your site’s dashboard. On the left side, hover your mouse over Settings near the bottom. Select Discussion. Settings → Discussion Default Article S

  You can add their email address, but if they use a different one all the time you can also use words (like phrases they may use but no legitimate commenter would use) to help identify their comments. You may need to refine the blocklist every once in a while to add terms for new comments that may slip through, but this will remove the bulk of their comments from your view.

  Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.