Fakers…

  • Uhm… So I got my user name registered at my site, you have it too, someone else… But what’s the point? Today a friend of mine posted on my site under my name (just for testing/like a joke). That’s like locking your 50cm wide steel door with 5 locks and having backdoor open…
    Puzzled

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  • /confused

    I take it you’re talking about comments. The user names registered in the wp-admin do not apply to the comment section; it has no user management.

    Thread Starter MaxT

    (@maxt)

    Yes, I were talking about comments…
    *Feels abused*

    That’s why there is blacklist plugin or hack. There is no way you can control the names of people posting comments on your site. However, you can moderate your comments.
    Hope this helps !

    If you have comment posters who abuse your blog, whether it is using a name you (or someone else) is using or something else (like spam), then perhaps you should turn on comment moderation. There has been a couple of threads about authenticating comment posters (via PGP, etc), but if developed by someone I am sure it will be a hack.
    Ultimately, if you have comment moderation off and commentors who abuse your blog, then it becomes like plugging holes in a dyke. For now, if someone posts under my name I would just change it and if the problem continutes then I will turn on comment moderation till they “go away.”

    Thread Starter MaxT

    (@maxt)

    That’s not a solution tho’, Beel… That’s more like “well, ok, you’ve won, now I wait till you go away”…

    PS: Basically we need some PHP parsing like:
    – new user comes to my site
    – he posts under nick blabla
    – php checks if that nick allready exist in the database, if yes, then user sent to login page; if not, comment is added.
    – done

    IMHO that’s not that hard to implement… or even better (to make load on the server less)
    -New user posts
    -Nick getting parsed
    -Checking if user’s lvl is 10 (admin)
    -Checking if user is logged in
    -If yes, allow posting, if not redirecting to login page.
    Can’t be *that* difficult IMHO…

    I abosultely need something like the hack described above. I’m seriously considering moving my site to WP. I have a lively commenting community, and I don’t want to stifle them with moderation. But I have a couple of abusive posters who hide behind anonymous pseudonyms.
    If I could just require some minimal registration, I think it would help a lot

    got it, MaxT.

    Thread Starter MaxT

    (@maxt)

    Did anyone gave it a try? ??

    I too would like to see this opening up. I tried today with a post under my registered name and a post under someone posing as myself, did it make any difference? Did it heck….they were still able to post under my name.

    WordPress needs some way of checking its database against registered members before it posts a comment, I mean if a script like cutenews can do this, why can’t wordpress? – Nothing against you guys of course, its like david vs goliath, cutenews can do it, wordpress can’t, there’s something seriously wrong there!

    This worth a go ?
    https://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/09/08/impostercide/

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