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Prevent & clean up spam comments on legacy wordcamp sites #1330
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Once a WordCamp is Likewise, if the event site is not the most recent one, I think it'd make sense to disable Jetpack contact forms too. |
Noting I've enabled That should've been enabled by default, so it's likely that the organisers disabled that. |
Super, thanks! 😄 |
Can we close comments on all sites? Seeing lots of submissions on pages like https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/additional-sponsorship-opportunities-released/27859955302_dcccbca1e9_h/. |
This is relatively low-priority IMHO.
I imagine Akismet is dealing with the spam and the analytics is not. |
We're trying to build a better understanding of if/how these sites are performing (for users, for the community, etc), and our analytics data is currently polluted by the submission attempts on these. It's also a not-insignificant SEO issue; one of hundreds which add up to contribute to the problem described here and here. (I'd write a more comprehensive ticket to make sure that we only track relevant/successful interactions via GTM, but that'd be far more complicated, and far less likely to get actioned) |
Pages like https://kathmandu.wordcamp.org/2018/wordcamp-kathmandu-2018-tickets/ are a magnet for spam comments. That's problematic for our SEO, analytics, and general quality of life.
We should address this by:
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