Title: Comments on drafts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments on drafts?

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/)
 * I just started using/testing WP. I have two posts up and I have three drafts 
   I need to finish. Good news is someone found my site. Curious news is, how did
   I get comments on the drafts I have filed? They aren’t visible to the public,
   so how did someone click a Comments link and submit them?

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 *  [midori](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midori/)
 * (@midori)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/#post-103660)
 * Were you also a victim of the spam bot ? Comments of different IPs, but same 
   mail / URI ? Search this board with “Spam”… ¬__¬
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/#post-103665)
 * Yes I was, but I was wondering how it was possible? If no link exists for the
   spam bot to scan, how can it invoke a the comment process? I’m just wondering
   how it is technically possible.
    Out poker friend appears busy!
 *  [Fahim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fahim/)
 * (@fahim)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/#post-103670)
 * They don’t look for posts or rather published posts – some of the bots seems 
   to just start at post ID 1 and continue on … so they got your draft posts because
   they were within the correct ID range :p These bots do not access an entry page
   and somehow fill in the comment fields and hit the submit button – they send 
   the comment information directly to the WP script which processes the comment
   information. Which is why there doesn’t have to be a published comment for them
   to spam it – just as long as the comment is in the database, it is enough …
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/#post-103876)
 * Ah. Thanks for the info. Ever since I installd the WP-Blacklist it stopped. Thanks!
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-on-drafts/#post-103891)
 * All it takes is a simple html file set to post to the proper target (wp-comments-
   post.php in this case.)…. there is a way to help discourage it, it’s not 100%
   effective in spam, but it will stop the comments on non-existant posts.
    [http://wordpress.org/support/3/15521](http://wordpress.org/support/3/15521)
   TG

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