WordPress 1.5 which I installed just this week offers a few more choices on spam control that I really needed, including a “mass spam” and “mass delete” button. I try hard to keep most of the spam off the front page, but I’m probably getting 50 pieces of “comment spam” for various online poker websites every day. Occasionally they’ll spam me 250 times in a minute or so. None of these pieces of spam get through, mostly because I added the word “poker” to the list of no-no words. Any comment that contains the word “poker” has to be approved by me first.
The new options for “Discussion Control” are these:
Before a comment appears:
- An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)
- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
- Comment author must have a previously approved comment
The only one I have checked is the last one – you must have a previously approved comment.
I suspect, though, looking over at Stephen’s and Courtney’s comments, that you must have a name and email supplied to be a “comment author”. You’re safe posting your email address here; it doesn’t appear anyplace on the website, and it’s only saved “behind the scenes” in case I want to follow up with you via email. I almost never do that, though. Still, if you want, feel free to supply a bogus email address, but use the same bogus email address so WordPress recognizes you as the same person next time.
If that doesn’t allow your comments to be posted immediately, I have some other ideas to try, but let’s do this one first.
Chasing the Wind 
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