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

[Chris Harrison]

Akismet does a great job but it's only a plugin, and not everyone is going
to have it activated or have a wordpress.com api key in order to use it.

As for OpenID... there is an inherent flaw with it... OpenID doesn't prove
that you are who you say you are... it just proves that a human was involved
in authenticating a domain, creating an account on Vox or something... The
moment Auto-Approve is enabled for OpenID, I think you'd be opening yourself
up to a wave of spam. Think they're not using Wordpress.com, Vox.com,
Blogger.com, etc?

Anyway... I think this might be a topic for the forums...

On 10/23/07, azrin <azrin at bbs.nu> wrote:
>
> Seems AKISMET does it's job well enough to filter out all the spams etc.
> Wishlist for AUTO APPROVE for OPENID registered users or wordpress.com ,
> something like Blogger
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "spencerp" <spencerp1 at gmail.com>
> To: <wp-testers at lists.automattic.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:15 PM
> Subject: [wp-testers] What's the point of comment moderation...
>
>
> > 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
> >
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