[wp-hackers] Moderating Extending extend/plugins Comments

[Computer Guru]

"this comment broke my wordpress completely, don't use it!" 

Sounds like spam - so you delete it.
But what if it turns out that it *does* break certain versions of WP? The guy didn't clarify, but then again, he wasn't wrong.

I have people making these same kind of posts on my site, and I elect to keep them (and reply with a "no it doesn't + justification") - just so at the end of the day I can honestly say that NST doesn't engage in comment filtering or censorship (personal attacks and spam excluded).

I guess it's a personal to make - I'm just pointing out that a comment *may* be understood both ways - even if it's useless and of no benefit to your readers, it's still their comment, if you get what I mean...

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NeoSmart Technologies
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Robin Adrianse
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:55 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Moderating Extending extend/plugins Comments
> 
> I don't think this is censorship. If this were censorship then by
> blocking
> spam we would be censoring their thoughts. If people are just going to
> be
> immature about something, then by all means -- delete their comments.
> 
> Are the comments getting run through Akismet?
> 
> On 4/7/07, ozgreg <wphackers at galleryembedded.com> wrote:
> >
> > For the record I am against comment censorship however..
> >
> > I have noticed a few posters leaving negative or just rubbish
> comments on
> > other author's plugins (and I get them myself) from posters who
> clearly did
> > not read the plugin requirements nor follow the plugin instructions.
> >
> > Can we, the plugin authors, have some way to flag comments of this
> nature
> > so they just do not appear on the public comments list, (hidden but
> not
> > deleted) as nothing is worse than comments appearing in the list that
> are in
> > effect just a red herring.
> >
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