WordPress MU

1.

Open: File - upgrade-schema.php
Find:
add_option('comment_registration', 0);
and
Replace:

add_option('comment_registration', 1);

2.
Open: File - options-general.php
Find:

<tr valign="top">
<th scope="row"><?php _e('Membership:') ?></th>
<td> <label for="comment_registration">
<input name="comment_registration" type="checkbox" id="comment_registration" value="1" <?php checked('1', get_option('comment_registration')); ?> />
<?php _e('Users must be registered and logged in to comment') ?>
</label>
</td>
</tr>

And remove. That's all.

Not being a code guy, I have to ask:

What does this do?

It forces a setting in the back, that only allows users who are logged in to comment.

The second part removes the option to change that value in the admin area.

They just spam you via trackbacks. You still get them.

Not if you turn those off too. lol

<note> You've pretty much killed the spirit of a blog by this point, but whatever. It does work, but isn't anything that wasn't known before.</note>

Pretty much as both of those suggestions is overkill and defeats the purpose of a blog.

Gotta admit that I think education is better. When you send a complaint to a host and they blow it off like ev1servers does, screw them and block the IP addresses.

+ remove comment_registration

in <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="blogname,blogdescription,new_admin_email,users_can_register,gmt_offset,date_format,time_format,start_of_week,comment_registration,WPLANG,language" />

Like this: <input type="hidden" name="page_options" value="blogname,blogdescription,new_admin_email,users_can_register,gmt_offset,date_format,time_format,start_of_week,WPLANG,language" />

Well if it works for you....

As noted up above, it doesn't work for the others here.