WordPress ignoring moderation settings
I quote the release article:
First we’ve made everything much more secure by default using a new option we call “emergent registration” or “automatic whitelisting.” What it does is the first time someone comments they are automatically held in moderation unless you’ve approved something from them before. This means that your regular visitors don’t have to wait for you to manually approve each comment they make, thus slowing down the conversation, but you still can ensure that a drive-by comment vandal will never show up on your site. This is enabled by default . . .
And yet, I’m still getting spam comments appearing automatically. It seems WordPress is simply ignoring my comment settings sometimes. How annoying.
I’ve had the same thing.. no matter what words I added to my blacklist this same online poker spammer kept managing to get through.
Now two weeks later it seems the settings have taken effect? I’ve no idea what’s going on.