If you have been getting spammed when commenting on a blog because you forget to uncheck that tiny box that is now checked as default, there is a way that you can set up your own blog so it doesn’t happen to your commenters.
Go to your dashboard, click on settings, click on discussion. If you scroll all the way down there is a box where you will see:
Show a ‘follow comments’‘ option in the comment form
If you unclick that box, that option will not be available for your commentors so they won’t get spammed. For some reason you may have to do it twice.
This public service message has been brought to you by Judy Berman of earthriderdotcom who got it from Rumpydog who got it from
http://titabuds.com/2012/05/07/a-flood-of-emails
Sure wish I would have figured it out sooner.
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 
Thank you. I remember half of the time to uncheck the box; the rest of the time I forget, so I’m inundated with comments.
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Me too. I changed my box but I still forget to check when I am on someone else’s.
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I am glad to know that I need to do it twice. Today my comments started going into blogger’s spam files. I am not sure that it is fixed and hopefully this will post!
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Your comment did go in my spam file. Not sure why.
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Thank you! It was driving me crazy.
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Thanks for the plug, Kate. Hope it works out for all. I’d seen your previous post on this problem and suspected you’d be interested.
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What about people who WANT to subscribe to the comment thread on interesting posts? Guess they are out of luck. 😦
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They are out of luck. If you think there are a lot of them, you can keep it open and maybe put a note at the bottom to be sure to uncheck if they don’t want them. WP people should know to do that by now. I always fear that getting a whole series of emails that someone doesn’t want will discourage comments, especially from non-bloggers.
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Thanks – especially for the twice thing. (like it was a confused mistake the first time?)
(knocking on glass screen)…is anyone listening to us in there? Just wondering.
Happy face. Happy faces now.
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