[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11684: Comment Moderation Should Count $url

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#11684: Comment Moderation Should Count $url
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 Reporter:  miqrogroove      |       Owner:           
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.0      
Component:  Comments         |     Version:           
 Severity:  major            |    Keywords:  has-patch
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Comment(by filosofo):

 Replying to [comment:8 miqrogroove]:
 > This thread isn't about spam sir ;)  It's about moderating comments that
 have links in them.  The existing feature, as advertised, is supposed to
 hold comments that contain N links in them, and IMO it does not do that.
 You could certainly argue that this should be a separate option and/or
 filterable, but the existing feature still wont do what it says it does.

 First of all, the option in question explicitly says that its purpose is
 for spam-catching:

 {{{
 Hold a comment in the queue if it contains X or more links.
 (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)
 }}}

 Second, you haven't addressed my point that the URL is ''not'' part of the
 comment.  It's meta-data about the comment, not "contained" in the comment
 itself.  So it does what it claims to do, assuming the effectiveness of
 the regex in matching links within the comment text.

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