Friends, I apologize for the whole comment moderation thing. Being new to WordPress, I think I more or less got the hang of the system, but not quite. The default setting for comments seems to be “under moderation.” It’s frustrating because I don’t want to have to keep approving comments for people such as Chris, Brian, Fredo, and a couple of others. It’s too time consuming and there are times where I am not at my computer for hours at a time. Also, I don’t have a history of getting hit with nasty comments. Whenever I get a comment from an offensive person, I can delete it.
This morning, I had a strange situation created by the Akismet plug-in. I enabled it a few days ago, thinking that I have spam protection. I have been spammed in the past, most notably by somone who posted in Portuguese last year. No strangers got caught in the Askimet spam net, but Brian did. It was frustrating that a fun and clever comment of his was held up for a few hours.
I’ve been adjusting the settings here and there, but nothing seems to make the comment moderation go away. Please be patient with me and any tips are appreciated.
Brian gets caught in mine all the time, too. It seems to depend on where he posts from.
I keep Akismet on, though, because the alternative is MUCH MUCH worse!! It’s not too much of a problem to go in and look at the spam catch every once in a while and see if there’s a real one in there!
For some reason a few real people have been getting caught in my Akismet net as well, but I won’t ever turn it off.