As soon as you open comments to the entire Internet, you have problems.
It’s important to create a community and to keep your visitors engaged. However, wide open comments leads to bots and professional promoters creating thousands of garbage comments with links back to unscrupulous websites.
One way to block unwanted comments is to use a simple blacklist. If the word appears in a comment, the system rejects the entire comment.
In our case our blocked words list became corrupted and we needed to rebuild a new banned list almost from scratch. We were able to copy only about the last 500 blocked words from our previous list of many 1000’s. We added those to a few dozen public domain block lists, and removed words that made sense for our sites. Now we are making our comment filter banned words list available to everyone for free.
Here is our list of 1600 words that cannot be used in the Commendts section of any of our WordPress sites:
There are several categories of words that should be blocked in a comment filter to maintain a safe and respectful online environment:
NOTE: There are words in this list that are not offensive and may be suitable for your site, so it’s advisable to review and remove those that are appropriate. We chose to ban certain words because they were not relevant to our website’s content. Topics related to politics, religion, or pharmaceuticals might not be inherently problematic, but if the don’t align with our content, so we exclude them. If your website focuses on medicine, for example, you might find it necessary to unblock terms from the comments blacklist, such as ’10mg’, ‘100mg’, ‘prescription’, which are pertinent to your discussions.
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