Do You Moderate Comments?

Everton | Mar 08, 2007 | View Comments


I just left a comment on a blog and not only did I have to fill in a captcha to leave a comment, but the author also moderates all comments even with the captcha, so who knows when my comment will get listed.

I nearly didn’t bother leaving the comment as I really hate captcha as I seem to have some form of selective dyslexia when it comes to captchas, but I just feel that moderating comments is one of the worst things that a blogger can do.

On this site I tend to let everything through apart from obvious spam. I have added a very small ‘comment policy’ notice under the comment form just so that I can remove comments if I want to, without the author being able to say that my actions were libellous. I think the only comments I have removed is where they have contained strong swearwords.

What comments policy do you run on your blog?


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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • I do moderate comments and the only reason why I do that is to sieve the shafts. Plugins like Top commentators has seen an upsurge in the number of spammy comments left by visitors, as well as automated tools that send comments to blog posts.
  • Most of the time I do not moderate my comments, but sometimes i get to the point where I see someone is just making a personal attack and I will delete it.  On my youtube account there are a lot of people who leave really odd messages, so sometimes I delete those.  If the message is not coherent I do not see the point of keeping it.
  • If you find any tools which enable you to manage this more effectivley, I bet that would be an article we would all find value in.

    As our traffic grows, it is always good to hear about tools that allow us to manage things with less time invested in the grudge work.
  • However, I still watch posts to see if folks are getting out of line, but I can imagine with a site as large as yours you would have a hard time doing that…

    The recent growth in comments combined with the increase in forum usage is getting hard to manage, as well as all the PMs and IMs I'm getting now....
  • When I launched the site, I was making folks login to comment, but now if I have to create an account to comment, most of the time I won't take the time to do that - so I removed that requirement from my site.

    I share the same practice as Ajay - I will moderate new commentators and then once approved they are allowed to post.

    However, I still watch posts to see if folks are getting out of line, but I can imagine with a site as large as yours you would have a hard time doing that...
  • Your magical words always makes me agree! I’ll do that ASAP

    lol I've made a 12 year career out of being a strategy consultant, so I would hope some of my ideas would apply to blogging!
  • Your magical words always makes me agree! I'll do that ASAP
  • I’m one of those evil brains who moderate comments. Actually I think it’s nothing wrong unless you delete good comments. I do this because my blog was actually a victim of manual hand spam once.


    If you use SK2 even the human spam will get caught as it learns from what you bury, or you can limit how many comments a person can leave over a set period.

    I just feel that by moderating comments you risk the chance that a comment is in the queue that would have convinced someone else to comment. What happens if you don't check your email for an hour or even longer if you are away from your PC or sleeping? It just stops any potential discussion that might have occured.

    I really feel that with the range of spam options available to WP users there is no need to moderate comments, and any remaining benefits are small compared to the benefits of not moderating
  • I'm one of those evil brains who moderate comments. Actually I think it's nothing wrong unless you delete good comments. I do this because my blog was actually a victim of manual hand spam once.

    I did everything I could, but couldn't stop it.
  • (P.S. the fact that you use some hidden forms to protect you from spamming is a bit annoying, I’d like to follow the conversation on cocomment… and, btw, the code doesn’t validate, since you have more than one input with the same id…)

    I'll see what I can do about the validation but te hidden forms have to stay as you wouldn't believe how much spam I get otherwise.
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