Getting rid of trolls

Thanks for the article, but it doesn’t help me at all. I have one extremely virulent and energetic troll. I tried putting his address in the spamwords, but it doesn’t work because I am using a plug-in that allows users to authorize their own comments by e-mail.

What I really need is a plug-in that will allow me to maintain a list of trolls’ e-mail addresses and then ensure that their posts never show up. Does anyone know of a tool like this?

[…] I am using a plug-in that allows users to authorize their own comments by e-mail.

You should probably^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdefinitely remove/disable that plugin                         .

rubyji,
The troll will just keep coming back with a new email address.

Is s/he on cable or DSL? If you can find the entries in your log files — and s/he’s not on dialup or a dynamic IP — you could block access to your blog via the .htaccess file:

deny from 111.222.333.444
or
deny from his.direct.dsl.address

No duh he will get new e-mail addresses, but that takes longer than getting new IP addresses. When I was using MT that was the only way to block him and it was a complete waste of time.

Why do you think I should remove the plug-in, woodfellow?

On a free email service I use I have more than 20 addresses because it’s easy to set them up when I need a throw-away (takes maybe a minute); they also offer a number of domains for me to choose from, allowing me to mask myself even more if I was up to no good.

Sorry, but getting a new email address is not difficult these days.