Social Media Examiner | Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/feed/ Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? - Forum Topic in the Group Blogging Tue, 21 May 2013 02:11:28 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-11083<![CDATA[Rivka Kawano replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-11083 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:22:06 +0000 Rivka Kawano replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging Non-spammers can sometimes still post inappropriate content, or things that should really be addressed privately. I have a pretty loose hand with what I approve, but especially since my site is geared towards kids […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10758<![CDATA[Jack Burgin replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10758 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:58:11 +0000 Jack Burgin replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging I just started a blog so I haven't experienced any spam yet but it's nice to know about Akismet. It sounds like it will do the job when the time comes.I've learned a lot since following these blogs.Thanks.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10717<![CDATA[Heather Wright-Porto replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10717 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:19:35 +0000 Heather Wright-Porto replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging I used to before I kept getting a bunch of spam comments (typepad).  On my Blogger blog I really never had a lot of spam at all so those comments are still open (but word verification turned on).
But I have no […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10583<![CDATA[Dan Gershenson replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-10583 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:36:44 +0000 Dan Gershenson replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging I always have approval first. With the plethora of spam out there, it's a must. You don't want spammy messages appearing on your blog unfiltered.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-9466<![CDATA[Abigail Gorton replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-9466 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:35:21 +0000 Abigail Gorton replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @carolinechen-whatley is that attacks that Akismet put into spam or ones that got past Akismet? So far kismet s dealing with most everything for me.
Thanks!

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-9389<![CDATA[Caroline Chen-Whatley replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-9389 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:47:32 +0000 Caroline Chen-Whatley replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @abigailgorton you'd be surprised how many attacks you can get.  I just logged into my blog today and had over 92 new spam that came in since last night.  I'm by no means a "big time" blogger but I think some […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8964<![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8964 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:45:01 +0000 Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @alexachipman I always recommend GASP - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/.  It won't stop people commenters that think sending those kinds of comments is useful, but it requires […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8917<![CDATA[Alexa Chipman replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8917 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:12:30 +0000 Alexa Chipman replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging Any recommendations for an easy CAPTCHA type one to add to a Wordpress platform? I have been simply moderating comments, but I had a new user get upset when he didn't see his comment show up—he went on to send […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8906<![CDATA[Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8906 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:36:01 +0000 Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @kristi-hines After reading through the discussion, I decided to implement DISQUS. It is clean, simple, and I love the interactive capabilities.Thanks for pointing me in that direction!Don

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8880<![CDATA[Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8880 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:29:17 +0000 Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @kristi-hines Thanks, I certainly will.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8879<![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8879 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:23:07 +0000 Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @donpurdum Check out the Best Commenting System thread - there's discussion about different commenting platforms including pros and cons of […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8769<![CDATA[Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8769 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:31:39 +0000 Don Purdum replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @peterurfer @kristi-hines @abigailgorton @carolinechen-whatley @morganbarnhart @hesham @nicoleetolenThanks for the comments guys!!! I leave moderation on for every post. I had a friend have a terrible […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8716<![CDATA[Peter Urfer replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8716 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:18:34 +0000 Peter Urfer replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging I always setup comments with moderation by default. 
Akismet and Captcha do a nice job, but there are still ways for spam to slip thru. And you can still get comments that do not belong to your post (be it an […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8678<![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8678 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:36:33 +0000 Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @abigailgorton Small blogs get hit by spammers too.  I start blogs up not linked to my name, profiles, etc. and within a week, they'll get hit by spam.  Spammers search out blogs period, not just big names or […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8651<![CDATA[Abigail Gorton replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8651 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:50:43 +0000 Abigail Gorton replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @kristi-hines I think this is one of those situations where big time bloggers like you probably need to protect your blog and reputation more from hand posted spam / offensive remarks than us smallbies do. And […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8630<![CDATA[Caroline Chen-Whatley replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8630 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:16:36 +0000 Caroline Chen-Whatley replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging Akismet used to have its up and down days but I suppose that's to be expected since it gets so much traffic it has to filter through.
I switched last year to Anti-Captcha.  I like it in that it so far has done a […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8620<![CDATA[Morgan Barnhart replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8620 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:02:26 +0000 Morgan Barnhart replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @hesham @abigailgorton
I guess I should stop using captcha and use Akismet. I didn't use it for so long because I heard it was horrible. But I suppose I'd better. I really don't mind that I have to wait for my […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8538<![CDATA[Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8538 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:19:03 +0000 Kristi Hines replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @donpurdum I moderate new comments, but use the setting that allows people who have already been approved to have their future comments automatically approved unless they change their name, email, or website […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8531<![CDATA[Russell Allert replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8531 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:08:44 +0000 Russell Allert replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @donpurdum I am in two minds on this issue. At the moment I am allowing comments to go on the page without moderation, although if you do this please use Akismet. The main reason I do this is that it reduces the […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8516<![CDATA[Hesham replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/do-you-allow-comments-to-blogs-without-moderation/#post-8516 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:56:54 +0000 Hesham replied to the forum topic Do You Allow Comments to Blogs Without Moderation? in the club Blogging @donpurdum , allow blog comments to post immediately is the worst thing ever, no one should do that, really!
I deal with comments like @nicoleetolen , I allow only those who have been approved before to post […]
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