Publisher Comment Moderation to Limit Spam

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The Publishers Control Panel provides your users with the ability to moderate comments, trackbacks, and referrers.  If comment moderation is enabled, comments will not be immediately posted to a blog until the publisher approves the comment for posting. Readers who post a comment on a blog that has moderation enabled will see a message when the comment is accepted by the system.

You can create or edit blog profiles that limit the moderation features available to your customers. See Blog Profiles.

 

Notification by email

Blog owners will be notified by email of comments in their moderation queue. The email notification is a system message sent to the email address you configured for the Publisher in the blog profile as well as any email addresses that are listed in the Notification field of the Publisher Control Panel.

The email is a system message that will be sent every half-hour to indicate the number of comments in moderation.

Notification on the Dashboard view

The Spam Flag column in the Recent Comments area of the dashboard view flags recent comments identified by the blogging system as potential spam. The status of comments can be Waiting for Approval or Posted.

Publishers can delete, delete and block, and approve selected comments. Single and multiple comments can be selected for action.

Spam is automatically detected

Spam is automatically detected by the blogging system and flagged to the publisher using a scoring system that analyzes comments for typical spam characteristics.

 

Item #

Check

1

Is the poster using an Open Proxy?

2

Is the post that the comment is being posted for over one month old?

3

Are there more than three URLs are in the body of the comment? 

4

Has there been an excessive number of comments to the same blog during the past hour?

5

Has there been an excessive number of comments to all blogs referring back to the same URL during the last hour?

6

Are there any typical spam words in the content of the blog?

 

If moderation is enabled, such comments are not posted and are flagged as spam. If moderation is not enabled, such comments are posted and are flagged as spam.