Q: How do you manage spam?
What measures are in place to prevent spam content?
Kaaberma
May 1, 2025A: To keep spam out of Simple Commenter, we’ve got a few layers of protection in place. First, you control who can comment by sharing a unique preview URL, which you can password-protect or keep private. This ensures only the right people have access.
On our end, we verify that comments come from the correct source (the referrer), blocking any unauthorized attempts to post.
Finally, we clean up user inputs in the text areas to block common spam or malicious code, keeping your feedback safe and legit.
These steps work together to make sure your client feedback stays spam-free!
Dlee254PLUSCan you share some pratical applications that would benefit from using this tool?
It's a tool for a very specific user and purpose, it's for web developers or agencies who want to share the website with their clients. Then, clients can leave feedback on the site like they would on a PDF.
You would share a preview URL of your WordPress, Webflow, Next.js, etc site. Hope it's more clear now?
WhitneyLAPLUSI was curious about spam too. It looks like anyone who lands on the site is able to comment. Would it be possible to require a sign in to comment? That would ensure whoever is leaving comments would automatically get email notifications as well. It wasn't immediately clear to me how the "leave your name and email" feature worked on the demo.
My users highly appreciate this tool's lack of login requirement and its seamless integration with any page. Since it's meant for preview/staging sites, I leave the login portion up to you; if you add a password to your staging site, it's already behind a login.
Leaving an email and name is under the "user icon". I will note that and will try to make its UX a bit clearer.
And Emails to whoever is commenting & file uploads are coming soon. You can refer to the simple commenter roadmap:
https://www.simplecommenter.com/docs/roadmap