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Hinckley39

Jul 16 2008, 06:44 PM

I really think you should add comment moderation to your list of programming priorities for this plugin. Most other free blog services offer posting moderation and that's what most of my potential clients ask for when starting a blog:

I opened a ticket about comment moderation and this is the response I got:

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Hello,

Unfortunately at this time there is no way to set it up so that blog comments must be approved before they are posted.

I responded with this:

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That is ridiculous. I went with Invision because it's such a powerful board tool, but all my client really wanted was a blog. I assumed your blog would be as professional as your forum software, but that is pathetic, and forgive me for saying-a bit lazy-that that feature isn't available. Now I have four hours to undo what I've done and install Word Press.

I'm horribly disappointed in this. You should encourage your programmers to rectify this right away. I find it absolutely confounding...

Needless to say I find this a little upsetting.

Hinckley39

Jul 16 2008, 06:57 PM

UPDATE from support staff:

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Hello,

That's not ENTIRELY accurate.. In the traditional sense of comment moderation, which I believe Keith was thinking you were referring to, where you set that all blog comments for all blogs have to be moderated.. No.. That is not an option.

HOWEVER.. Each Blog owner can set comment moderation on their OWN blog. It's just not something that you can set GLOBALLY.

If you create a blog, then go to "Your Blog Settings", one of the options is

Approve comments posted on your blog?

Which can be set for Guest Comments Only, or All Comments, or left disabled.

By default, this is off, and there is no setting for you, as the admin, to turn it on by default for all Blogs.. It can be done, but would take some modifications..

Gärrett

Jul 16 2008, 08:44 PM

I honestly don't see why it is a problem that you can't moderate everyone's blog.

Seems more logical to me to let the blog author decide what is and isn't there, and it saves you work too. Imagine a board with thousands of blogs - how would you like to go about moderating every comment?

Keith J. Kacin

Jul 16 2008, 08:57 PM

I apologize for the confusion on the first reply. I was under the assumption you meant globally setting it so comments need to be approved by a moderator.

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