For those of you who are unfamiliar with German or Google, that means “I have a question.” Hopefully some of you veteran WordPressers can answer it. Is there a way to set up the blog so that anyone can comment and I won’t have to approve them all manually? And if there is, should I do it, or is that an open invitation for spammers?
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The Gumball Machine 
October 27, 2009 at 9:50 am |
Yes, there is a way; yes, you will get spammers, but you’ll get those anyway; WordPress.com should automatically have a spam filter called Akismet set up for you.
October 28, 2009 at 6:31 am |
Okay, so how do I do it? I tried searching the WordPress help topics, but I didn’t find what I was looking for.
October 29, 2009 at 12:02 am |
Down the left-hand menu of your dashboard, click Settings, then click Discussion, and you should see everything you want. Nice pic of the gumball machine btw.
October 29, 2009 at 12:03 am |
Looks like you are currently set to “commenter must have a previously approved comment,” which is not a totally bad way–you don’t have to approve everything. But you can set it up so that everybody can comment without prior approval if you want.
October 29, 2009 at 8:37 am |
Danke.
November 1, 2009 at 10:49 pm |
hey, i know what that means!!
November 2, 2009 at 6:28 am |
And here you led me to believe you only spoke English and a little French.
November 10, 2009 at 3:42 pm |
I have posted a couple of comments. I thought they went through or am I mistaken.
November 11, 2009 at 4:25 am |
Yusuf~ Your comments are showing up. No worries.