Does Comment Moderation support Regular Expressions?

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 10:51 pm

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  I have a WordPress.com blog and I was wondering if the Comment Moderation was the same as that of WordPress.org, which supports regular expressions.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 10:53 pm

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  Could you define “regular expressions?”

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 10:56 pm

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Moderation says:

  he second option is to specify a set of moderation keys which, if present in any part of the comment, will cause it to be held for moderation. These keys are specified one per line in the large text area, which is blank by default. Moderation keys can include Spam Words, swear words, IP addresses, and Regular Expressions.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:00 pm

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  Then yes, as you can see on the Discussions page of your Dashboard, there is a block where you can put in words, etc that will cause it to be held for moderation.

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:02 pm

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  That’s not what I’m asking.

  Please answer only if you know what regular expressions are.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:03 pm

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  Why not test it, then? You tell us.

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:09 pm

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  I put

  zyx?yz

  as a rule to go into moderation but when I commented with “zyyz”, the comment does not go into moderation. Is there something else I have to do to indicate it is a regular expression rule, or does Comment Moderation for WordPress.com not support regular expressions?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10 pm

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  Were you logged out when you left that comment? Blog owners can always use anything at all on their own blogs. If you log out, that’ll be the true test.

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:19 pm

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  Yeah, I was logged out.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:27 pm

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  Now, that is very unusual. It should definitely have held it for moderation. Can you check the Discussions settings again and see if it saved the instruction?

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  restructure · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:37 pm

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  Yes, it saved the instruction.

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  t3ck · Member · Apr 29, 2009 at 11:46 pm

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  WordPress.com Functions different from WordPress.org
  you can read up on the comment moderation by following this
  link http://support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 30, 2009 at 1:30 am

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  As far as I can see, however, it should have caught that comment.

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  singlemomplus2 · Member · May 25, 2009 at 4:01 am

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  What does it mean when you reply to someones blog and you get the message that your comments are awaiting moderation?

  Thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 25, 2009 at 4:09 am

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  It means that the blogger has their blog set up so that all comments have to be approved before they will appear on the blog.