Title: Automatic comment moderation?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Automatic comment moderation?

 *  [antifuse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antifuse/)
 * (@antifuse)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/)
 * Ok, I just upgraded [my site](http://www.ryanwaddell.com) to WP 1.0, and I was
   skimming through the options. I noticed that one of the new features is comment
   moderation, with the option of Manual or Automatic. As far as I can tell from
   looking at the code, these 2 are identical. Am I right on this one?

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 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-29566)
 * The last time I asked, the functionality is the same, for now. Later, there is
   supposed to be a difference between automatic/manual. 🙂
 *  [Laughinglizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laughinglizard/)
 * (@laughinglizard)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-29567)
 * Yes. These two are identical. The manual moderation is for future additions to
   the system such as bayesian filtering for comments.
 *  [scooter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scooter/)
 * (@scooter)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-29608)
 * So if I put automatic on, it does.. what?
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-29613)
 * LL described it correctly, but accidently changed “manual” and “automatic”.
    
   So, let’s sum it up again: “Manual” means, that you decide yourself about approval
   of newly posted comments. Currently “automatic” has the same meaning. But in 
   the near future “automatic” will be the first step to allow WP to “automatically”
   approve comments by using things like “blacklist matching” or “bayesian filtering”.
 *  [graygraffam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graygraffam/)
 * (@graygraffam)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-30097)
 * Perhaps I’ve missed something in 03-28-2004 build… but I cannot find a way to
   set commentary for automatic approval. A key functionality of blog is that people
   are able to post and see their comments immediately, and NOT have to wait for
   approval. I can’t find a setting that will turn off the email notification feature,
   forcing feedback to be moderated. Maybe I’ve just missed it. 😉 Help?
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-30098)
 * In the new version: Options > Discussion > check “An administrator must approve
   the comment (regardless of any matches below)”
 *  [graygraffam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graygraffam/)
 * (@graygraffam)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-comment-moderation/#post-30099)
 * I think what I was looking for was more of something where:
    (1) the post would
   be immediate, without moderator approval; (2) the moderator would be notified
   of the post, and could take action if they chose. The reason a post should appear
   immediately for the author is to convey that it has been received by the system.
   It also appears to be a standard Blog functionality. You don’t want the author
   sitting there wondering what happened to their post. Again, I sort of assume 
   that it’s in the system somewhere, but it isn’t obvious how this is done. Looking
   over the code, I would suggest that you consider modifying functions.php. If 
   a post is to be accepted automatically, you will need to modify the wp_notify_moderator
   function. It is only a minor tweak, but it would be a modification to line 1160
   where you change [is waiting for your approval] to [has been submitted], and 
   an addition to the routine below line 1179 where the comment is now changed from
   a status of “0” to “1”. If you want to make the routine more sophisticated (a
   good idea), you will have to build in a bit more query and tie it to permission
   settings from the admin module, e.g. “allow automatic posts” which should be 
   a system setting. Hope that helps. I think your product rocks, by the way. This
   is only a minor tweak, suggestion. 😉

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