[wp-hackers] Proposed patch for spam problem

Owen Winkler ringmaster at midnightcircus.com
Tue Nov 2 22:05:27 UTC 2004


Kitty wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 05:29, Owen Winkler wrote:
> 
>>Except that apply_filters('comment_text',...) could easily have more 
>>than one regex in it, and it would be executed twice using this.
> 
> 
> Of course they could, but I'd rather have it spam check the comment in
> it's final form, so that the spam checking is more effective.
> 

Ah, ok.  'comment_text' is for output filtering, 'post_comment_text' is 
for pre-database commit.  'comment_text' isn't normally applied to the 
comment before it's inserted into the table for any reason, hence my 
confusion.  My mistake.

Diff looks good and I withdraw any prior objections.

Owen




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