Antispam Collateral Condolences
About
This plugin will notify commenters when their comments are caught as spam or put in the moderation queue. As requested by Eric Meyer.
Download
Instructions
Click the link above and then click “Download” to download the plugin as a .php file. Upload this file to your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate it from within the WordPress admin interface.
The default notification is a JS alert. Also included is a notification method that embeds a paragraph into your comments form. Edit the plugin (down at the bottom) to switch methods (or use your own).
Versions
- Version 0.2 Make sure that someone submitting two comments in a row (first moderated, 2nd approved) doesn’t get told their 2nd comment was moderated
- Version 0.1 Initial release


in the end, failed badly. Then I asked for plugin help on IRC, but nobody noticed. So I’m throwing the request out to the audience here to see what y’all can do. Thanks to anyone who can help! Update 5 Feb 07: Mark Jaquith has come through with Antispam Collateral Condolences, a plugin that does exactly what I requested. It can put up the warning either as a JavaScript alert box, or a message embedded in the page upon returning them to the post on which they commented. Totally, completely awesome. You rock, Mark!
Thoroughly awesome, sir. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
As Eric said, awesome. Thanks for that.
Wow! This definitely should be the default bundled WordPress plugin ever!
A minor step for WordPress, a major leap towards spamfree blogging!!
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interesting. i’ve often wished for this, although i’ve always wondered if this might encourage spammers to try again. being that it’s javascript, it shouldn’t but it’s interesting.
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Well that’s kind of useful. I’ll make good use of it, thanks a lot.
Cheers -
Use full. Thxx
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hey guys.
is this still not incorporated into wp core?
my question is still open, can anyone answer it maybe?