Title: Default Comment Moderation
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Default Comment Moderation

 *  [TechSupport1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techsupport1973/)
 * (@techsupport1973)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comment-moderation/)
 * In this day and age, having open and unmoderated comments on a blog is a recipe
   for trouble. Once a bot finds a blog post with an open commenting it will hit
   it until something or someone stops it. Bots use up the limited supply of cpu
   cycles on the Web Server and DB server. Not to mention it can use up quite a 
   bit of Bandwidth should the comments on the post grow into the hundreds.
 * The seasoned WP user may know this already but for the new and uninitiated WP
   users, it can be a costly mistake.
 * The default setting for comments on a post should be set to be moderated. Going
   further it should require the poster to be a registered user for the blog and
   logged in.
 * If someone wants to have open and unmoderated commenting on their blog so be 
   it, but they should have to make the changes from the default settings to have
   it that way and not the other way around.
 * Perhaps I’m missing the need for having the defaults settings the way they are
   but I’m speaking from experience here.
 * Thank you for considering this change for future development of WordPress! 🙂

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 *  [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comment-moderation/#post-6608468)
 * Yes I agree.
 *  [ashiquzzaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashiquzzaman/)
 * (@ashiquzzaman)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comment-moderation/#post-6608517)
 * In recent WordPress versions by default the comments are turned off. That’s one
   way to handle it and another way would be to use a comment plugin.
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comment-moderation/#post-6608535)
 * Many plugins exist for managing comments, be it to set them on/off or to have
   them close automatically after a period of time.

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 * [comment moderation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment-moderation/)

 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comment-moderation/#post-6608535)
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