DISQUS

Zath · 2 years ago

On the subject of commenting, the one thing i would say is, yes its good not to have to moderate to then have your comment there.

Therefore using the confirmation coding here on your site is a good way round it - one very minor improvement would be if there was anyway that you could then be re-directed back to the site, that would be a good addition.

Ajay · 2 years ago

I moderate only a new commenters comment. Once, you have a comment, all future comments come through without any moderation.

Though Akismet for some reason has been flagging a lot of my commenters as spam and so they landup into the moderation queue.

hongkiat · 2 years ago

I will just let mostly everything through. The rest are up to my akismet.

"I moderate only a new commenters comment. Once, you have a comment, all future comments come through without any moderation." Ajay, what's the plugin for this?

I'm still fine with captcha, but please let it on the same place and somewhere near the submit button. The most irritating site I've came about is where you enter your comment, hit submit and it brings you to a blank new page to enter the captcha figures.

Ajay · 2 years ago

The blank new page with the captcha is generated by SK2, when it suspects you to be a spammer.

The setting, I talked about comes inbuilt in WordPress.... Commenter must have previous comments or something.

If you have SK2, then you need the SK2 moderate plugin for this to kick in.

Bill · 2 years ago

Because my site receives relatively few daily comments I moderate everything. This gives me a chance to read every comment and reply whenever possible. It also gives me a chance to identify with my readers which is nice because my audience is pretty small.

As for captchas, I hate filling them in so I try not to use them. In the future I'll probably implement OpenID in my comments form but that's still a ways off.

Madhur Kapoor · 2 years ago

I dont moderate comments , i leave them to Akismet for filtering . and if i find any comment unappropriate , i manually delete it .

As for Captchas , i have the same opinion as you do .

billg · 2 years ago

I don't think moderation should be avoided at all costs, but it's annoying enough that it ought to be deployed after other antispam measures fail. CAPTCHAS and other tricks that attempt to verify human activity come first. But, it's the blogger's choice. I don't believe in encouraging people to believe that bloggers have an obligation to accept any and all comments. Comments are published at the pleasure of the blog's owner.

I'm convinced, though, that the primary barrier against spam should be deployed at the server level, not at the individual blog level. Dealing with spam at blog level actually often increases server load.

Libel law in the UK and here in the US are different enough that guidance in one country often doesn't apply in the other. However, the notion of publishing a policy on comments -- "here's how comments work here and by posting one you indicate your acceptance of that policy...." -- is a very good idea.

engtech · 2 years ago

I use Akismet, and on top of that I hand-moderate all comments with links.

I will delete comments by trolls. Some people are just rude, especially if a post got a lot of traffic from Digg or Slashdot.

Andrea Micheloni · 2 years ago

I have to moderate comments with some special words just to be sure that when Akismet fails and allows some spam to pass trough, it's not immediately shown to everybody.
Well, and of course, swearwords.

(P.S. the fact that you use some hidden forms to protect you from spamming is a bit annoying, I'd like to follow the conversation on cocomment... and, btw, the code doesn't validate, since you have more than one input with the same id...)

Everton · 2 years ago

(P.S. the fact that you use some hidden forms to protect you from spamming is a bit annoying, I’d like to follow the conversation on cocomment… and, btw, the code doesn’t validate, since you have more than one input with the same id…)

I'll see what I can do about the validation but te hidden forms have to stay as you wouldn't believe how much spam I get otherwise.

Thilak · 2 years ago

I'm one of those evil brains who moderate comments. Actually I think it's nothing wrong unless you delete good comments. I do this because my blog was actually a victim of manual hand spam once.

I did everything I could, but couldn't stop it.

Everton · 2 years ago

I’m one of those evil brains who moderate comments. Actually I think it’s nothing wrong unless you delete good comments. I do this because my blog was actually a victim of manual hand spam once.

If you use SK2 even the human spam will get caught as it learns from what you bury, or you can limit how many comments a person can leave over a set period.

I just feel that by moderating comments you risk the chance that a comment is in the queue that would have convinced someone else to comment. What happens if you don't check your email for an hour or even longer if you are away from your PC or sleeping? It just stops any potential discussion that might have occured.

I really feel that with the range of spam options available to WP users there is no need to moderate comments, and any remaining benefits are small compared to the benefits of not moderating

Thilak · 2 years ago

Your magical words always makes me agree! I'll do that ASAP

Everton · 2 years ago

Your magical words always makes me agree! I’ll do that ASAP

lol I've made a 12 year career out of being a strategy consultant, so I would hope some of my ideas would apply to blogging!

Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago

When I launched the site, I was making folks login to comment, but now if I have to create an account to comment, most of the time I won't take the time to do that - so I removed that requirement from my site.

I share the same practice as Ajay - I will moderate new commentators and then once approved they are allowed to post.

However, I still watch posts to see if folks are getting out of line, but I can imagine with a site as large as yours you would have a hard time doing that...

Everton · 2 years ago

However, I still watch posts to see if folks are getting out of line, but I can imagine with a site as large as yours you would have a hard time doing that…

The recent growth in comments combined with the increase in forum usage is getting hard to manage, as well as all the PMs and IMs I'm getting now....

Mark from Bloglyne.com · 2 years ago

If you find any tools which enable you to manage this more effectivley, I bet that would be an article we would all find value in.

As our traffic grows, it is always good to hear about tools that allow us to manage things with less time invested in the grudge work.

sweetiepie · 11 months ago

Most of the time I do not moderate my comments, but sometimes i get to the point where I see someone is just making a personal attack and I will delete it.  On my youtube account there are a lot of people who leave really odd messages, so sometimes I delete those.  If the message is not coherent I do not see the point of keeping it.

meeting rooms · 11 months ago

I do moderate comments and the only reason why I do that is to sieve the shafts. Plugins like Top commentators has seen an upsurge in the number of spammy comments left by visitors, as well as automated tools that send comments to blog posts.