Automatically Approve Comments

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  tcatullo · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 7:49 pm

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  Hey, everyone.

  I was wondering, is there a way I can have it where when a comment is posted it doesn’t have to go into moderation for me to apporve it and it is just automatically apporved?

  Please let me know if I can do this. Thanks.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 7:50 pm

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  Dashboard -> Options -> Discussion -> Uncheck the boxed labeled “An administrator must always approve the comment” and “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  tcatullo · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 7:59 pm

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  Thanks! It worked perfectly.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 9:08 pm

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  @tcatullo
  I hope you realize by removing comment moderation that you are inviting every spammer in cyber space to send spam bots to your blog.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 9:10 pm

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  No, not really. Plus you still get a copy of the comment emailed to you.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 9:37 pm

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  Comments moderation drastically lowers people’s eagerness to leave real comments. As long as Akismet works as well as it does, I wouldn’t consider it unless I had severe troll attacks on a blog other than raincoaster. It kills a conversation to be put on hold all the time.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 10:34 pm

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  The thing is is that the note about moderation comes up after the comment is left. Kind of rude if you ask me.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 10:44 pm

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  That’s a point. If comments are going to be moderated, I far prefer to know in advance.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 10:57 pm

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  Presumably people can read and take note that I clearly state on my blogs that all comments are moderated.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 11:20 pm

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  What we’re saying is that it should say that automatically, on all blogs where comments are moderated. Currently it doesn’t.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 15, 2007 at 11:26 pm

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  TT, I’ve never noticed that on your blog but I’ve got to admit that I’ve not looked for it either.

  Agree with Rain. Like right about the comment box.

  Hmm, I wonder if I can do that with my install? I get too many ideas around here…

  edit: Hmm, Gone to open up a trac ticket for regular wordpress