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The joys of syndication and spam control

The Bad Behavior plugin seems to block my friends who try to syndicate this site on LiveJournal. I might need to fiddle with whitelisting.

Speaking of whitelists, why oh why are comments made by registered WordPress users being held for moderation (including myself)? This is by both Akismet spam moderation and within the built-in (I think) WordPress Awaiting Moderation tab. I wonder if I missed a setting somewhere. I had to adjust Spam Karma 2’s Filter Plugin Setting for User Level to accept logged in users, too, so I’m confused why I still need to do more comment moderation.

Then again, perhaps Akismet requires training (like email spam filters). That would be fine. Although that leaves the (current) mystery of the default Awaiting Moderation entries popping up for registered users. Will investigate, but advice welcomed!

Update: Under Options ⇒ Discussion, having “An admin must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)” turned on is the likely culprit. Since I already have “must fill out name/email” and “must have previously approved comment” turned on, this had confused me.

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