If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything….

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less….

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.

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….

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….

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…

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

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!

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.

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 did everything I could, but couldn’t stop it.

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.

(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.

(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…)

(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 will delete comments by trolls. Some people are just rude, especially if a post got a lot of traffic from Digg or Slashdot.

I will delete comments by trolls. Some people are just rude, especially if a post got a lot of traffic from Digg or Slashdot.

I’m convinced, though, that the primary barrier against spam should be deployed at the server level, not at the individual blog level. Dealing with spam at blog level actually often increases server load.

Libel law in the UK and here in the US are different enough that guidance in one country often doesn’t apply in the other. However, the notion of publishing a policy on comments — “here’s how comments work here and by posting one you indicate your acceptance of that policy….” — is a very good idea.

I’m convinced, though, that the primary barrier against spam should be deployed at the server level, not at the individual blog level. Dealing with spam at blog level actually often increases server load.

Libel law in the UK and here in the US are different enough that guidance in one country often doesn’t apply in the other. However, the notion of publishing a policy on comments — “here’s how comments work here and by posting one you indicate your acceptance of that policy….” — is a very good idea.

As for Captchas , i have the same opinion as you do .

As for Captchas , i have the same opinion as you do .

As for captchas, I hate filling them in so I try not to use them. In the future I’ll probably implement OpenID in my comments form but that’s still a ways off.

As for captchas, I hate filling them in so I try not to use them. In the future I’ll probably implement OpenID in my comments form but that’s still a ways off.

The setting, I talked about comes inbuilt in WordPress…. Commenter must have previous comments or something.

If you have SK2, then you need the SK2 moderate plugin for this to kick in.

The setting, I talked about comes inbuilt in WordPress…. Commenter must have previous comments or something.

If you have SK2, then you need the SK2 moderate plugin for this to kick in.

“I moderate only a new commenters comment. Once, you have a comment, all future comments come through without any moderation.” Ajay, what’s the plugin for this?

I’m still fine with captcha, but please let it on the same place and somewhere near the submit button. The most irritating site I’ve came about is where you enter your comment, hit submit and it brings you to a blank new page to enter the captcha figures.

“I moderate only a new commenters comment. Once, you have a comment, all future comments come through without any moderation.” Ajay, what’s the plugin for this?

I’m still fine with captcha, but please let it on the same place and somewhere near the submit button. The most irritating site I’ve came about is where you enter your comment, hit submit and it brings you to a blank new page to enter the captcha figures.

Though Akismet for some reason has been flagging a lot of my commenters as spam and so they landup into the moderation queue.

Though Akismet for some reason has been flagging a lot of my commenters as spam and so they landup into the moderation queue.

Therefore using the confirmation coding here on your site is a good way round it – one very minor improvement would be if there was anyway that you could then be re-directed back to the site, that would be a good addition.

Therefore using the confirmation coding here on your site is a good way round it – one very minor improvement would be if there was anyway that you could then be re-directed back to the site, that would be a good addition.