Comments on: Comment Moderation

By: Patriot

Patriot — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:59:09 +0000

ok it’s working now

By: Patriot

Patriot — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:58:26 +0000

WordPress? what’s that?

is that a server-thingy for running a site with forums like this one!? I thought lies.com had probably been done from scratch in somebody’s basement. all the best stuff is.

i want one!

hmm, found ‘WordPress.org! on Google, but it won’t load. taking forever, server’s probably down. rats.

found “alexking.org”
been planning to get my own blog for a while, but I wanted a fancy one like this.
And here it is!!! Yay!

By: Pat O'Cake

Pat O'Cake — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:23:13 +0000

What, like this?

http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376

By: uhoh

uhoh — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:31:30 +0000

MTBlacklist guy?

I’d like to see a wordpress plugin that required users to type out the text shown in a random image. Google for captcha. =D

By: John Callender

John Callender — Thu, 27 May 2004 23:10:25 +0000

Hm. Okay, well, the WPBlacklist hack turns out, upon much investigation, to be more or less the same thing that was implemented with the “spam words” function. And it actually _does_ seem to do regex matching. So by grabbing a copy of the latest blacklist from the MTBlacklist guy, and dumping it in there, I’m hoping I’m basically there.

I’ve turned off automatic comment moderation. As of now (and subject to some testing I’m about to do), comments will appear right away unless they trigger the spam words thingy.

By: John Callender

John Callender — Thu, 27 May 2004 19:31:27 +0000

The first of those (the Comment Moderation Plugin) I looked at, but didn’t like, since I don’t want everyone to have to manually confirm a real email on every spam. I’d rather they did it once, to get cookied as a registered user, after which their comments would just go through.

The Spam Words function is working now, though since I’m holding all comments for moderation anyway it isn’t actually doing anything.

I’ll check out that WPBlacklist hack. Thanks for the pointer on that.

By: hossman

hossman — Thu, 27 May 2004 18:33:57 +0000

jbc, I assuming you’re refering to the Comment Moderation Plugin.

Evidently, there’s also a “Spam Words” function, that lets you provide a giant list of words (not regexes unfortunately) to test against comments. As I understand it, even if you turn comment moderation off, any comment matching any of those words gets queued for moderation anyway. Something to think about

There also seems to be a WPBlacklist hack that shows up in searches for “wordpress spam” … allthough the exact distinction between a WordPress plugin and a WordPress hack is lost on me.