Better Comment Moderation
For sometime now, I've been saying a better way to have comment moderation would be allow comments from "regular visitors" come through right away, and everything else get moderated. This way - it takes the burden of moderating ALL comments off the blog author, and takes away any kind of "hoop jumping" your would-be commenters have to do - especially with the ones that comment regularly. Most spam preventions "punish" these people the most.
Of course, I'm too lazy busy to write the script - but I'm so glad that someone else did! 
I've actually had very good luck thus far with the simple spam words in WP - but as soon as that starts to fail more seriously - I will definitely implement something like that.
June 23rd, 2004 at 9:03 pm
Oooh that looks like a neat option. On my Wordpress site I used a combination of plugins. I use the Ubergeeks plugin to have posts older than 10 days go into comment moderation mode, and then I use Skippy's comment moderation plugin to allow people to receive an email to auto approve their own comments. Although, I guess this does put the slight burden on the commenter, so if that's not what you'd want for your site, then Kitten's sounds very cool. I may have to compare which I like better!
June 24th, 2004 at 1:06 am
Thanks for the plug!
June 24th, 2004 at 4:02 am
Beautiful. I almost hesitate to spread the word on this one… once spammers get wind of it, they can just leave a generic "legitimate" comment ("I agree, good post!"), then flood your blog with spam. So SHH!
So far, no spam comments have gotten through on my blog, because I've set it so that all comments with 4 or more links go to moderation, but it's only a matter of time before WordPress gets popular enough to merit spammers "figuring out" how to get around that.
But this looks like a great backup option for the future. I don't wanna whip out the CAPTCHA unless I really have to…