Abusive Comment Spam

[sebpayne]

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

[marlinspike]

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

[Andy]

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

[peestandingup]

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 Lane]

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

[Shane Canfield]

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!

[peestandingup]

Just don't let the internet overloards sense that you are displeased with www.google.com/analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics) :uhoh Yeah, im waiting for that to come back online for new sign ups. Looks very nice.

[Andy]

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.