Why do Anonymous comments post to Polls without Moderation?

Worker Joined: Jun 21, 2010 Posts: 102

In the Administration Menu I selected Preferences and then I set these options:

General Site Info:
Allow Anonymous to Post? Yes

Comments Moderation:
Moderation by Admin

Miscellaneous Options:
Activate Comments in Polls? Yes

These settings will allow Anonymous to Post comments to Polls instantly with out Moderation.

Is this normal under these settings or can I Moderate comments before they are posted to Polls?

Thank you.

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:08 am

As far as I know, there is not a way for anonymous users to have there comments wait for approval. The moderation for comments has to do with a comment rating system from nuke if I remember correctly. It allows admins/moderators to select from a drop down menu if the comment was overrated, underrated, etc...

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:22 pm

That sounds about right. To be honest, even if anonymous comments were moderated, you would have so much work to do you would proably turn that option off any way and allow only registered users to comment.
It's still a good point though. If you are forcing moderation, then anonymous should be moderated as well. I have made a note to check our code for RavenCMS and if it doesn't allow moderation for anonymous, I'll create an enhancement request for it.

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:55 pm

Guardian2003 wrote:

if anonymous comments were moderated, you would have so much work to do

Yes, this would be true if I had the traffic. I installed RavenNuke in 2010 and have been practicing with it every since. I’m looking forward to having much work to do as the site grows. Until then I can only prepare.

I hope some day I will turn the option off because of traffic and memberships. Even though the site has been up for about four years, I currently have a total of eighty-five members, which I picked up from NukeC between 2010 to 2012.

There is no rush at all for an enhancement request, but would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you both for your reply.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:01 pm

If you are using the disqus mod, adding it to the surveys is pretty simple. Disqus has a lot of extra features to stop spam even from anonymous users.