Is there a way to "accept comments" before they post directly to our blog? We want to let the public comment without having to be a member but at the same time want to ensure that none of the content being posted is inappropriate.

Thanks for your help.

We do not currently have moderation of blog comments.

I will move this to wishlist forum to gather feedback from others.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I would appreciate more input from others.

What would be better - pre-moderation  (approve every comment before it goes live) or post-moderation (publish all comments immediately but get notifications and a quick way to delete comments)

Also, what are the most frequent reasons for deleting comments - spam?

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Our association is concerned about spam blog comments. Please add a moderation function that will allow us to review comments before they're publicly viewable.

Many thanks!

It would also be good to enable moderators to move comments to another thread and close a blog post for further comments.

We really need to be able to monitor blog postings. It makes no sense not to be able to do so.
As they say here in America, "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch." Which means, 1 person can do lots of damage with a BLOG that's not checked and approved as non malicious. What's the hold up on getting this done? Russell

Russell, there is no hold up - this is waiting its turn in the queue against a few hundreds other requests, many of them have been prioritized higher so for now there is no timeline yet for this feature. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Would like to add our vote for this one: simple moderation of blog comments would help us a great deal.

Regards,
Ian
worthing and adur chamber of commerce

Sorry, looks like this is not going to fit into 2011 

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Evgeny
Product Design Team