I am getting bots commenting on my topics, but the comment box is not visible. This topic was just commented on by a bot.
http://greatarchitect.us/forums/topic/level-cap-raised-in-patch-1-4/

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Any idea why this is happening and how I can stop it?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 3 months ago]

I can’t tell from your link what the issue is – do you mean commented as with a post, or they have created a forum reply and if so which one?

[@seeingblues2 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

They are not replies, they are showing up awaiting moderation in my comment section of the dashboard.

http://s30.postimg.org/vwgam8in5/comments.png

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 3 months ago]

If you have askimet installed, then this will trap these.

[@seeingblues2 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

Well you are probably right, but that’s a band-aid, not a fix to something that should not be happening. There is no comment field on the pages/topics that these comments are being left on. I have disabled comments by non-logged in visitors, I have also ran a SQL query to disable pings and trackbacks on all existing pages & post, yet I am still getting comments on topics.

Installing yet another plugin is not how I want to fix this. I would rather disable the ability for bots to find and use any comment features on these topics period.

[@seeingblues2 Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

Hope everyone had a fun labor day weekend.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 3 months ago]

Indeed pingbacks and trackbacks should not be enabled, I’ve just created a ticket to have a look at this, #2677.

It was also mentioned in this thread https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/disable-pingbacks/