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Hello,
Is there a way to send a mail to user for approving his own comment? By doing this I want to verify his email address. I need to do this because I see some fake comments in the system with suspicious email adresses.
Can I do it by modifying the subscriber confirmation process or is it a hard work?
Thank you.
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You can definitely re-use parts of the subscriber confirmation code but it's still a fair amount of work.
There may be better ways to deal with the issue, depending on whether it's a person or a bot who's submitting the comments. Maybe the captchas need strengthening, or Akismet needs enabling, or you could ban the email addresses if there's some type of pattern.
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Hello Steven, thanks for the reply.
I think same person from different IPs with different names, writing comments with fake emails and he is not the only one..They are writing negative comments about the opponent company but I can't be sure that they are real customers or not. If I can set some kind of email verification I believe that these kind of fake comments are going to be less than now.
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Unfortunately I don't think there's a lot that can be done. If the person is determined, (and it sounds like they are), then they can easily create a disposable email address to get around the email address verification.
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Ok Steven thank you.
If I improve my php skills in the future, maybe I do it by re-using subscriber confirmation code..
