THX and others often leave legitimate comments that, for some reason, get stuck in the comment moderation queue. This has been a source of annoyance for quite some time, so I was pleased to find this plugin today: Never Moderate, from Coffee2Code.
If you register to post comments on this blog, your comments will no longer get stuck in moderation, even if you use a blacklisted word like casino or Viagra. If you’ve registered to comment previously but have lost your password, you can retrieve it here.
Of course, spammy and/or wildly inappropriate comments will still be manually moderated, but at least comments won’t mysteriously pass into spamland if they’re from registered readers.



Here is an example:
Online Poker
Tramadol
This comment shows up normally, even though a comment with these words from a non-logged in user would end up in a black hole.