Your Comment is Awaiting Moderation…NOOO
Comment moderation seems to be the big thing now. Whenever I leave a comment on a blog and press the Submit button, I get “your comment is awaiting moderation. It will appear when the blog owner has approved it.” I’m starting to see this more and more. I can understand personal blogs doing that. I’ve had people, who I knew in real life, stalk my blog and leave rude comments whenever they could. This happens a lot with personal blogs, so if the blog owner wants to moderate the blog, then I don’t see anything wrong with that.
However, business blogs are increasingly getting into this practice and it doesn’t make sense. The rules don’t apply to them like they do with personal blogs. I’ve gotten my share of rude comments on my blog posts. It sucks when I see them, and I do get the urge to delete them, but I don’t. The best way to show your professionalism is to handle the comment head on. It will make your readers think “Wow, this person has got it going on,” and it will give you a sense of accomplishment.
Business blogs, take that moderation off. If you are worried about spam, get something like Akismet to manage it. If you are worried about rude comments, deal with it. Not everyone is going to like what you write, so all you can do is accept that and move on. It discourages people to leave anymore comments when they see the moderation message pop up.
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Part of the problem is human-entered link spam. I get a lot of it on my sites (especially Lighter Footstep). It goes right past Akismet, and some of it is pretty nasty stuff. So I moderate posts with links from people without DISQUS, OpenID, or Facebook credentials (I whitelist known commenters). You do the same. In fact, you’re even more strict. I’ll accept — but hold — guest comments. Your Echo settings prohibit guest comments entirely. Anyway, it’s not always just businesses trying to control the message. There’s some responsibility in curating our webspace. And the spammers aren’t letting up.
I’m still trying to get used to Echo (just installed it last week). I did notice that guest comments are not allowed, but I still haven’t figured out how to allow them.
Chris, has the comment moderation discouraged people from commenting? Or you haven’t seen a difference in the amount of people who do?
So right. I guess part of the blame goes to WordPress having moderation enabled by default, but since you have to manually enable akismet, I guess it’s a sensible default.
I’m going to drop it for my blog. It’s annyoing for readers and for me, since I waste time accepting all the comments
BTW, when tryinig to comment using Facebook, I get:
Invalid API key specified
The application you are trying to access does not exist or has been disabled.
Thanks so much for letting me know about the FB issue. I’ve notified JS-Kit support about it.