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Troll management on a WordPress blog

I am looking for 2 things:

a) near-perfect way of weeding out spam users right in Registration
b) automated deletion of spam Users, if some of these are already registered on a WordPress site

Feel free to tip any good tools that you’ve seen being used, or have used yourself. Thanks!

Will be posting about this in the future. For now, found it was easiest to just delete fake users right from the WordPress admin panel (backend). But it seems the incoming registration stream is quite constant, at a few new fake users per day, so in the long run it would be great to solve this in a bit more automated manner.

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2 responses to “Troll management on a WordPress blog”

  1. PoojaG Avatar
    PoojaG

    Trolls/spam are a serious issue on WP. One thing I’ve found helpful is blocking their IP address as some spammers/trolls use multiple accounts but they all have the same IP address.

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    1. jukkasoft Avatar
      jukkasoft

      Yeah, IP definitely looks like a promiment way to block. Some IPs might have a cool-down period, if a plugin allows doing this. Since some of the IPs will anyway probably be “recycled”, this is typical in home Internet connections, where the Internet provider has a large pool of dynamic IP addresses. I’ve had now the spam issue since experimenting with User roles and allowing registration. Thanks for tips! I’ll keep experimenting more and at least there are plenty of ways to approach this. 🙂

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