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A lot of Wordpress blogs have installed Top Commentator widget in their blog. Well, its a very good plugin to appreciate your top commentators. Mostly your readers want to see their name and their website link at the top of the list that is why they comment, not always but mostly. But do you know that anyone can remove/change the hyperlink from any of the the top commentator’s name. Want to know how ? Lets start :
Requirement :
- Email address of top commentator
The trick :
Now, I believe that you have the email id of any of the top commentator say “XYZ”. Now what you have to do is, you have to write a comment on any of the post but there are 3 things you should keep in mind :
1. The name should be same as that of “XYZ”
2. The email id should also be the same
3. Leave the the Website textbox blank or enter your desired link
Now write your comment and click on Submit. After the comment gets approved the link of the “XYZ” top commentator will be removed/changed.
Mostly, I have seen that there is no need to enter the exact email also, you can simply change the hyperlink by entering same name. Now, please do not try this trick, its was just to inform you about the drawback of top commentator plugin, for testing you can try it on your own blog. :p
So, what are your views on this ?
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Gaganpreet Singh on May 23, 2009 | Filed Under Tricks, Wordpress
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Yeah its a big drawback of this plugin. I already faced this problem once. Any solution for this problem ?
It is called comment hijacking.You can detect it if you know the person very well.You can also make your gravatar integrated to your email instead of your name.It help upto some extent but if your email id is known you can easily hijack it.
Thanx for the post
yes its true but nothing much can me done
Comment Luv is a Better Alternative to Top Commenter Widget… I don’t understand why only 5 people will get all the credits from a blog where as many people leave extremely valuable comments.
Also Top Commentator Link doesn’t open in new Tab/Window .
Ya but this is true that the Widget Attract Lot of Comments. Trying to make in in the top 5.
Regards
Debajyoti Das
Another drawback of top commentator plugin is that people misuse it to rank for particular keyword and you will see lots of comments like TFS and nice..
That’s Why I never tend to use it on my blog..
Rather I use comment luv plugin which is way much better
Hi, courteous posts there
through’s recompense the interesting word
You are right. There are lot of guys who are doing the same on my blog.
But, i am extra careful while approving the comments.
Top commentator plugin is designed to pull out user informations from his/her email address. Now if two users share the same name with different email addresses, there will be no technical conflict. But if they use same email address with different website links, this plugin will treat the new link as a update to the email address and will start showing the newly added website.
There is no solution to this presently, but we can always comment again with our website link to replace the previously link
great post man never even thought of this
I still don’t feel the affects on the web… real life – 100% affected