[wp-testers] What's the point of comment moderation...

[Peter Westwood]

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spencerp wrote:
> When it's not moderating anything anyway? I mean, even on 2.3 the
> comment moderation wasn't working either...
> 
> I tried comment moderation on both themes, the one I'm using and the
> default theme and it's still letting comments through, no matter what. I
> went to Options > Discussion and chose under: Before a comment appears:
> 
>    * An administrator must always approve the comment
> 
> It's the only one checked... I even put their IP address in for Comment
> Moderation, whenever someone on that IP posts a comment, and it STILL
> lets it go through. They went and tried this on another browser, while
> not being logged in, as a total stranger.. they got an auth image,
> filled it out, and was approved too... As far as I know, the only way to
> keep a moderation going for my stuff...is to ban peoples IPs in the
> .htaccess file.. and that's pretty lame... I mean seriously though,
> despite them being approved before or not, if the option to comment
> moderation is checked, it should moderate comments as expected right?
> 
> Spencer: when u went in on other browser
> did you get auth image
> and fill it out
> 
> blacksnday: yea
> 
> Spencer: and was approved anyway?
> 
> blacksnday: yea it is said:
> THANK YOU YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED
> 

Are you using any comment moderation plugins - like SK2 for example?

westi
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