[wp-hackers] Comment form plugin hook request

[Mark Jaquith]

Owen Winkler wrote:

> The missing comment doesn't always register to them as "accepted but 
> unapproved", usually more as "comment system failed".  Besides that, 
> their comment does appear in the list with this change, but *only to 
> them* until it is approved.  This could slow the rate of adaptation of 
> comment spammers.
>
> If not this, then some more overt kind of notice would be beneficial. 

Yeah, I made a hack for this a few days ago: 
http://txfx.net/2004/10/29/wordpress-hack-notify-users-of-moderation/

Pretty simple: just tack on ?moderated=true to the redirect URI if the 
comment was moderated.  Then, show a JS alert if $_GET['moderated'] == 
'true'