How can I stop spammers from leaving comments on my hubs?
I've started getting spam as comments to my hubs. They contain links to sales sites. Is anyone else having this problem? If so, how are you handling it? Don't users have to sign in to comment?
You can change your hubs so that only signed in users can leave comments. Go to the edit section of your hub, click the edit button on the comments field and tick the box that says 'only signed-in users may comment' or words to that effect.
If you'd like to be able to get comments from guests as well as signed-in users, you can also set your preferences to "moderate all comments." This is what I do with mine, and basically all it does is it doesn't allow any comments to show until you have read them over and approve them. This is great for getting rid of spam comments, as well as getting rid of duplicates if maybe someone accidentally hit the "submit" button more than once.
If you have a hub that gets too many weird comments, you can always delete the comment capsule. I had one hub where people loved to write novel length comments telling me how they disagreed with my hub, and I simply grew tired of reading and replying to these. Sometimes no response is the best response if you have a hub that attracts a lot of spammy or novel length comments. Besides, the opinionated/spammy people can always start their own blogs to peddle their content.
select the moderate all comments then Deny spam comments that'll help or delete the capsule.
You can as mentioned above, moderate your comments. It depends on your own settings as to whether people have to be signed in to leave a comment or not.
Also, just because someone leaves a comment, does not mean you have to approve it. Not if it will damage your ranking with Google or get you in bother.
Unfortunately, unless you disable the comment capsule, which could harm your hub also, then you have no choice but to moderate the comments first.
by Kate Swanson 17 years ago
I've never been able to understand why the comments capsule is optional. After all, we have the ability to moderate and deny comments if we don't like them. Seems to me the only people who wouldn't want comments are the spammers, so why do we make it easy for them?
by Jackie Lynnley 9 years ago
Have you noticed that you must be signed in to click on a hubber's name to go to their hubs? This does not seem good to me; it keeps readers from spotting hubbers they may want to check out and the traffic we are after is non-hubbers isn't it? So they would never be signed in. This seems an issue...
by Rajan Singh Jolly 10 years ago
Can a visitor leave a comment on hubs?
by Carolee Samuda 13 years ago
This might be my last forum post because I am tired. I can't be wasting my time beating a dead horse.HP is a business and they need to start treating their business more seriously. They need a task force to sit and brain storm about how to keep spammers out in the first place.I know that I have...
by Kathryn 12 years ago
Why do some people have Hubs without a place for comments?
by Melody Collins 13 years ago
I noticed that comments I leave to other peoples comments has a message to moderate my own comment. What does that button do. When I comment back does it automatically appear?
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