Re: Restricting who can post to my blog...

Posted by GregChapman on Oct 16, 2014; 7:55am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Restricting-who-can-post-to-my-blog-tp7591974p7592001.html

integrativeawareness wrote

I have the following settings:

View  - anyone
Reply - anyone

Everything else is Admin.  With that said, you mention Reply - should be
Admin, but I would like other people to be able to comment on the post.

Just to put Pedro's response in context...

The setting "Reply - Anyone" will indeed allow anyone to make a comment on your posts.

The danger in allowing Anyone to do this is that you may get a lot of spam posts.

Most forum administrators would only allow "Registered" users to reply. That means you have a point of contact if should you wish to respond privately to someone who posts. You could also ban them, although, as Nabble warns you, that is not a reliable approach as anyone can re-register a new address and carry on spamming.

That leaves you with the option of using the "Members" group. As the link that Pedro shows, this is an entirely manual process that you control as Administrator. The disadvantage of only allowing Members to post is that any potential commenter instead of being able to comment immediately, is presented with a form that asks them to provide an email address and give reasons for being allowed to post. You would then have to add them to the Members group.

Depending on the popularity of your blog and whether it attracts spammers, it is probably worth initially allowing "Anyone" to post and only moving to "Registered" or "Members" if you continue to have problems with unwelcome posts.