The Wardman Wire

Welshcakes has asked me to clarify my previous posting about “Banning Domains from Registering Accounts” for non-techies. OK, here we go.

This is what I said:

I am using a Wordpress plugin “Registration Blacklist” on the mattwardman.com to prevent users from certain domains registering accounts.

I have had a stream of repeated bogus registrations from mail.ru, which has prompted me to take this action.

I’m sure that you are familiar with the idea of creating an account (”registering”) on a site.

I use Wordpress as a blogging platform. That allows users to “register” with my site. See the screenshot of “meta” menu.

One of the benefits of a user registering is that it becomes easier to make comments.

My concern is that I have had a number of dodgy looking registrations from throwaway email addresses at a domain called mail.ru.

I have therefore prevented this one domain from registering.

However, they can still comment on articles by adding their details each time.

OK, Welshcakes?