I’ve decided to stop holding comments for approval.
The main purpose behind holding them for approval was to prevent comment spam — this is where an automated tool leaves bogus comments with random text snippets linking to an unrelated 3rd party page. The goal of comment spamming is to raise “relevance” of the linked page in search engines.
Now comments just require an email address and a CAPTCHA which should accomplish the same goal and encourage (I hope) more comments and commenters.
Thanks for reading!
