Usual settings for an articleTo view global Discussion Options, click the Options menu tab, then Discussion. There are four types of global administrative options you can set for discussions.
Usual settings for an article:
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Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article This option enables pingback for every article. PingBack is a communication tool between two blog sites. |
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Allow link notifications from other Weblogs This option enables other blogs to PingBack or TrackBack your SiteBlog articles. Enabling this option displays the TrackBack URL of your articles (in the comments section) for your readers to copy and paste into their blog tools. |
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Allow people to post comments on the article This option (enabled by default) permits readers to post comments on any of your articles. We generally recommend enabling this option as reader inter-activity is one of the hallmarks of the blogging community. |
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Any of these three options can be enabled or disabled on an individual-article basis. |
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Anyone posts a comment This option instructs SiteBlog to send you an email any time someone posts a comment. |
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A comment is approved or declined This option instructs SiteBlog to send you an email any time a comment is approved or declined. Since you are generally the admin for SiteBlog, this option is not necessary. |
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An administrator must approve the comment If you're concerned about comment-spam, then we recommend enabling this option. Once enabled, all comments must be manually approved by you before they appear on the SiteBlog page. |
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Comment author must fill out name and email When enabled this option forces commenters to enter their name and email addresses. Although intended to discourage illegitimate commenting, it alone cannot succeed in that goal as fake names and email addresses can be entered. It ought to be used in conjunction with other anti-spam tools provided by SiteBlog. |
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Comment author must have a previously approved comment When enabled this option only allows comments to display from those who have had a previously approved comment. |
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Approving all comments will eliminate virtually all comment-spams. However, legitimate readers posting comments may wonder why their comments aren't appearing instantaneously and may either repeat-post their comments or simply leave and never return out of frustration. Unless you constantly monitor your SiteBlog and/or email inbox, this is a risk you may face if you enable the "Administrator must approve the comment" option. |
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Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than X links. One of the characteristics of many comment-spams is the inclusion of multiple links (usually to the spammer's commerce site and related sites) in the comment. Given such characteristic, SiteBlog allows you to automatically filter any comment that includes X number of links and hold it for your approval. You determine the number X. By default, X is set to 5. |
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Keyword Filtering Box In this box, enter any word, phrase, name, URL, email address, or even the specific IP address of undesired commentators. If any comment matches anything in the box, then it will automatically be held for approval. |
This is a list of words that you want completely blacklisted from your blog. Be very careful what you add here, because if a comment matches something here it will be completely nuked and there will be no notification. Remember that partial words can match, so if there is any chance something here might match it would be better to put it in the moderation box above.
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Always click Update Options button whenever you make a change. |
