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I came to the same solution, just disabling comments. There's a prompt to email me in the footer, but no one ever has. Shame, but that's the world we live in.

account42 4y ago
Just like with banners, nobody reads footers so that is not surprising. Your footer also makes no indication if you will publish replies via email in a way similar to comments so there will be people that won't bother if it is only you that will see their thoughts. Have you considered an info box where the comments would be to push anyone interested to mail? Or allow comments but make them work more like mail with comments not being publicly visible until you approve them? If you just want to cut down on non-targeted spam then it might be enough to have your comments work even slightly differently from the standard word-press solution, e.g. by adding a simple text field with a question that real human visitors of your site should be able to answer. This alone has worked for all of my sites that allow user contributions so far - won't stop anyone trying to spam your site specifically ofc but you can always take further measures WHEN that becomes a problem. PS: Is your site supposed to have a default WordPress favicon?
- coldpie 4y ago
  > Have you considered an info box where the comments would be to push anyone interested to mail? Not a bad idea, thanks. Maybe I'll try that. I suspect the "problem" is I just have approx. zero readers :) > If you just want to cut down on non-targeted spam then it might be enough to have your comments work even slightly differently from the standard word-press solution, e.g. by adding a simple text field with a question that real human visitors of your site should be able to answer. Yeah, I'd like to do that, but I don't have the time/interest in figuring out how to make Wordpress do that. I tried googling for plugins or whatever a while back, but never found anything pre-made. > Is your site supposed to have a default WordPress favicon? Never thought of changing it!

account42 4y ago

Just like with banners, nobody reads footers so that is not surprising. Your footer also makes no indication if you will publish replies via email in a way similar to comments so there will be people that won't bother if it is only you that will see their thoughts. Have you considered an info box where the comments would be to push anyone interested to mail? Or allow comments but make them work more like mail with comments not being publicly visible until you approve them? If you just want to cut down on non-targeted spam then it might be enough to have your comments work even slightly differently from the standard word-press solution, e.g. by adding a simple text field with a question that real human visitors of your site should be able to answer. This alone has worked for all of my sites that allow user contributions so far - won't stop anyone trying to spam your site specifically ofc but you can always take further measures WHEN that becomes a problem. PS: Is your site supposed to have a default WordPress favicon?

coldpie 4y ago
> Have you considered an info box where the comments would be to push anyone interested to mail? Not a bad idea, thanks. Maybe I'll try that. I suspect the "problem" is I just have approx. zero readers :) > If you just want to cut down on non-targeted spam then it might be enough to have your comments work even slightly differently from the standard word-press solution, e.g. by adding a simple text field with a question that real human visitors of your site should be able to answer. Yeah, I'd like to do that, but I don't have the time/interest in figuring out how to make Wordpress do that. I tried googling for plugins or whatever a while back, but never found anything pre-made. > Is your site supposed to have a default WordPress favicon? Never thought of changing it!