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

[spencerp]

Peter Westwood wrote:
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>> Peter Westwood wrote:
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>>>> When it's not moderating anything anyway? I mean, even on 2.3 the
>>>> comment moderation wasn't working either...
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>    * An administrator must always approve the comment
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> Spencer: when u went in on other browser
>>>> did you get auth image
>>>> and fill it out
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>>>> blacksnday: yea
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>>>> Spencer: and was approved anyway?
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>>>> blacksnday: yea it is said:
>>>> THANK YOU YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED
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>>> Are you using any comment moderation plugins - like SK2 for example?
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>>> westi
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>> Thanks for quick reply westi. =) Yeah...I'm using Spam Karma 2 (2.3 rc4)
>> and Bad Behavior (2.0.10). I have the SK2 plugin, that basically allows
>> Akismet to work with it as well. Hence for not having have the normal
>> Akismet plugin enabled... Is there something I need to do with SK2 to
>> allow WP default moderation to work or am I pretty much screwed either
>> way? Thanks again for quick reply.. =D
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> Yes you do.
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> Firstly disable the captcha plugin in SK2 so that people can't recover
> themselves.
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> Then install this plugin for SK2
> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/
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> That will make SK2 take into account the following WP options:
> "An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches
> below)" (under Options ... Discussion)
> "Comment author must have a previously approved comment" ( also under
> Options ... Discussion)
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> By default SK2 overrides all the builtin comment moderation controls
> with it's own ones.
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> westi

You're awesome westi! I did this for ALL of my blogs now! =D =D Now I 
can remove the site wide banning of IPs, and rest peacefully this 
morning! Whoo Hoo! ... =D