Abusive Comment Spam

sebpaynesebpayne Registered Users Posts: 73 Big grins
edited February 3, 2006 in SmugMug Support
Hi Gang

Some people from my previous school have been littering my smugmug galleries/site with abusive spam which was rather offedning :cry . The language was so bad, I couldn't possibly post it here. I don't want to turn off comments because I do recieve some good ones.

What would anyone do in this situation? Any suggestion? Are smugmug Inc. able to track the IP of the comments? I deleted them today as I didn't want 'serious' people to see them.

Seb

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  • marlinspikemarlinspike Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    Go to the control panel, click on the thing that tells you how many comments you have, in the upper right hand click enable comment approval (see http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-sharing-comments)
    Richard
    http://davidson.smugmug.com
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    sebpayne wrote:
    Hi Gang

    Some people from my previous school have been littering my smugmug galleries/site with abusive spam which was rather offedning :cry . The language was so bad, I couldn't possibly post it here. I don't want to turn off comments because I do recieve some good ones.

    What would anyone do in this situation? Any suggestion? Are smugmug Inc. able to track the IP of the comments? I deleted them today as I didn't want 'serious' people to see them.

    Seb

    Hi Seb,

    Turn comment approval ON... SmugMug Help to the rescue:

    http://www.smugmug.com/help/photo-sharing-comments
    Andy

    Portfolio • Workshops • Facebook • Twitter
  • peestandinguppeestandingup Registered Users Posts: 489 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    Seb, you can also set up a StatCounter account & use that to track who is coming to your site. It gives you IPs, time, dates, galleries they visited, cities they are in, etc.
    http://www.statcounter.com/
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    peestandingup wrote:
    Seb, you can also set up a StatCounter account & use that to track who is coming to your site. It gives you IPs, time, dates, galleries they visited, cities they are in, etc.
    http://www.statcounter.com/

    Just don't let the internet overloards sense that you are displeased with www.google.com/analytics :uhoh
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited February 3, 2006
    sebpayne wrote:
    Hi Gang

    Some people from my previous school have been littering my smugmug galleries/site with abusive spam which was rather offedning :cry . The language was so bad, I couldn't possibly post it here. I don't want to turn off comments because I do recieve some good ones.

    What would anyone do in this situation? Any suggestion? Are smugmug Inc. able to track the IP of the comments? I deleted them today as I didn't want 'serious' people to see them.

    Seb

    Seb, I just went through something similar...I turned if off. Not sure how to turn off the Gallery Comments tho. It would be good if all comments could be turned off. I figure people can email me if they want to comment. Good luck!
  • peestandinguppeestandingup Registered Users Posts: 489 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    Mike Lane wrote:
    Just don't let the internet overloards sense that you are displeased with www.google.com/analytics :uhoh
    Yeah, im waiting for that to come back online for new sign ups. Looks very nice.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 3, 2006
    Shane Canfield wrote:
    Seb, I just went through something similar...I turned if off. Not sure how to turn off the Gallery Comments tho. It would be good if all comments could be turned off. I figure people can email me if they want to comment. Good luck!

    Shane, if you have comments turned off in your gallery customization then you won't get any :)

    Gallery Tools>customize gallery>comments=no.
    Andy

    Portfolio • Workshops • Facebook • Twitter
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