How to permanently block someone from your blog?

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Seseorang bertanya kepada saya pertanyaan ini beberapa hari yang lalu -- bagaimana cara saya memblokir pengunjung yang bermasalah secara permanen? Jawabannya tidak sederhana dan memerlukan semacam rekayasa sosial yang juga bergantung pada seberapa cerdas pengunjung tersebut.

Berikut adalah beberapa langkah yang cukup sederhana untuk memblokir seseorang dari blog Anda. Langkah-langkah ini mengasumsikan bahwa Anda mengendalikan akun hosting Anda dan menggunakan Wordpress sebagai alat blogging Anda.

  • Wajibkan pendaftaran sebelum berkomentar. Ini *mungkin* menghambat pengunjung Anda untuk berkomentar jika mereka perlu mendaftar terlebih dahulu dan memvalidasi alamat email mereka. Namun, pengunjung yang merepotkan selalu dapat mendaftar dengan alamat email baru khusus untuk mendaftarkan diri di blog Anda.
  • Jika mereka berhasil melewati langkah #1, Anda dapat mengubah kata sandi mereka di WP Admin. Namun, pengunjung tersebut selalu dapat menggunakan fasilitas Lupa Kata Sandi untuk mengembalikannya. Trik yang lebih baik adalah mengganti nama pengguna mereka, sehingga meskipun mereka menggunakan fitur lupa kata sandi, mereka harus melakukan tebak-tebakan yang cukup sulit mengenai nama pengguna baru mereka. Untuk mengatasinya, pengunjung harus membuat akun email baru dan mendaftar ulang di blog Anda.
  • Bersama dengan langkah #1 dan #2, Anda dapat mengatur agar semua komentar tetap dalam moderasi terlebih dahulu (lihat Opsi WP), sehingga Anda harus menyetujui setiap komentar secara manual sebelum ditampilkan, yang demikian akan menyaring komentar tidak diinginkan dari pengunjung tersebut.
  • Blokir alamat IP-nya. Di panel kontrol hosting Anda (misalnya cPanel), terdapat fitur bernama Daftar Blokir IP. Identifikasi alamat IP pengunjung melalui salah satu komentarnya yang lebih lama dan tambahkan ke Daftar Blokir IP. Jika beruntung, pengunjung mungkin memiliki alamat IP statis sehingga ia tidak dapat mengunjungi blog/situs Anda dan meninggalkan komentar. Masalahnya adalah jika pengunjung menggunakan alamat IP dinamis dan mendapatkan alamat baru setiap kali mereka terhubung ke internet. Anda dapat memblokir seluruh rentang alamat IP dari penyedia layanan internet (ISP) mereka, namun hal itu juga akan mencakup pembaca potensial yang tidak bersalah lainnya.

Kombinasi dari satu atau semua langkah di atas mungkin akan membuat pengunjung Anda enggan kembali dan memposting komentar. Ide lain yang saya miliki adalah mendeteksi versi browser, sistem operasi, dan ukuran layar pengunjung, lalu membuat aturan htaccess untuk mengarahkan siapa pun dengan kombinasi tersebut ke tempat lain. Metode yang paling efektif sebenarnya adalah benar-benar menonaktifkan fitur komentar di blog Anda. :D

Kalian punya trik lain dalam pikiran? Saya mengirimkan tautan ini kepada orang yang meminta saran agar dia juga dapat membaca komentar tambahan kalian.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does requiring registration before commenting help block a troublesome visitor?
Requiring registration forces the visitor to sign up and validate an email address, which can deter immediate commenting.
What is a more effective way than changing a password to prevent a banned user from resetting access?
Changing the user’s username forces the visitor to guess the new name, making the forgot‑password feature ineffective.
Where can you add an IP address to a ban list on a typical hosting account?
The IP Ban list in the hosting control panel, such as cPanel, allows you to block the visitor’s IP address.
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Abe Olandres

Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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Владимир Кужляев · 18 years ago

Даа… Читаю и понимаю, что ничего не понимаю о чем речь:)

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Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 20 years ago

@ Manuel

No, I don’t block GWA. I just do IP ban esp. for spam referrers and comments.

@ Everyone

Thanks to all for your tips!

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Alfie · 20 years ago

In blog script that I was using before, I modify the script such that no commenter can submit a comment with a URL, (starting with “http://” or “http://www”), then they pissed-off and stop doing it again.

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ManuelV · 20 years ago

@jhay: GWA prefetches your web pages so that the user enjoys a faster browsing experience. It’s as if the robot clicks on all the links, so that when the user does click on a link of your page, a cached copy is served. This prefetching has an impact on your bandwidth.

Sometimes, a served cached copy involves pages requiring log in authentication, so some users end up seeing pages logged into by other users. This, in effect, raises some privacy issues.

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SELaplana · 20 years ago

moderating the comment is the best step.

you don’t need to ban a person in coming back to your blog. you must be thankful for someone has visited your blog.

just let him drop his comment into your blog, anyway you can edit their comments.

hayaan mong magspam comment ang mga visitors mo as long as their comments are related to your posts. In that way, madagdagan ang content ng post mo …. at the same time wala kang ika-worry sa link to his hompage dahil automatic naman yun na “NO FOLLOW” para sa search engines.

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jhay · 20 years ago

Just enable comment moderation and if the troublemaker appears again just delete his comment. then ingore him, don’t post anything addressed to him or her it just flatters them much more.

@ManuelV: Why ban users using Google Web Accelerator? Are there issues with it?

Anyone?

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ManuelV · 20 years ago

Hi Abe… Do you block Yugatech.com visitors if they’re using Google Web Accelerator?

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ade · 20 years ago

I’ve had a visitor who used to post a lot of crap against muslims on my tagboard. It became so bad that I had to delete my tagboard later on. For wordpress though, I just required first-time posters to be approved, and it has worked like a charm for me.

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Rickey · 20 years ago

Normally, users are troublesome because they post all kind of crap in the comments section.

For WordPress, I’ve turned on user registration and in the Discussion Options, I’ve included the offending user’s e-mail address in Comment Moderation.

If you are using Spam Karma, you have to turn comment moderation back on using this plug-in:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38460

Hope this helps!

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