[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47926: Disable website field in comment section

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#47926: Disable website field in comment section
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 Reporter:  longman2020      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by aimutch):

 The responses to this appear to fall into the old "we've always done it
 this way" trap without thinking about why it was done that way originally
 or whether it makes sense to continue to include it. I did a quick search
 on Google and found articles going back to at least 2011 of people asking
 how to disable this field because of the volume of spam it generates
 through WordPress sites.

 I suspect that an analysis would find that this is the #1 generator of
 spam on WordPress sites. And to what end? Is this a feature of the
 standard comment field that people clamor to have? No. If it went away or
 was disabled by default, would anyone miss it? Very few people I suspect.
 But because someone thought it was a good idea to have this field 1000
 WordPress years ago, we're stuck having to install a plugin to disable a
 form field that serves very little purpose and exposes WordPress sites and
 their visitor to all kinds of bad content.

 Isn't it time to have a discussion of whether this is worth all the
 problems that this form field causes?

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