Title: First time commenters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# First time commenters

 *  Resolved [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/)
 * While this isn’t so much a _problem_ as a concern, I noticed that even though
   i have the option to send first time comments into moderation, they are appearing
   immediately.
 * I’m wondering if this is due to Spam Karma 2, but I’m not sure. Anyone else having
   this happen, or is my blog just being flakey?

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 *  [ColdForged](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coldforged/)
 * (@coldforged)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-194573)
 * No idea. I run without SK2 and don’t have that behavior.
 *  Thread Starter [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-194615)
 * Well, then I wonder why none of my comments endup in moderation from first timers.
   Hrmm.
 *  Thread Starter [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195231)
 * I’m bumping this because it’s still an issue and I’d very much like to know what
   exactly is causing it. What controls how WP determines a first time commenter,
   for instance? How can I check to make sure everything is working.
 * On my old server I’ve never had a problem, but I only really noticed the issue
   the last month, so I can’t say when exactly it started.
 *  Thread Starter [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195245)
 * An update on this (even though I’m the only one who apparently cares!) – Dr. 
   Dave confirmed it is an SK2 thing, it basically overrules all the moderation 
   criteria set in Discussion options. Which is fine with me – I really just wanted
   to know why it suddenly stopped moderating things.
 * So, yeah…that’s all….
 *  [davebgimp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davebgimp/)
 * (@davebgimp)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195313)
 * I have this same problem and while I love SK2, it’s driving me nuts because, 
   at heart, I’m a comment moderation nazi. It seems that the documentation for 
   SK2 is a bit slim but I wonder if there’s a way to have SK2 take over and moderate
   all comments? Any ideas?
 *  [davebgimp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davebgimp/)
 * (@davebgimp)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195314)
 * I got it! I asked Dr. Dave and he pointed me to this plugin.
    [http://www.ftwr.co.uk/blog/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/](http://www.ftwr.co.uk/blog/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/)
 *  Thread Starter [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * (@ceo)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195315)
 * Whoop, thank you davebgimp! *squish* You are officially my hero.

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 * [SK2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sk2/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-commenters/#post-195315)
 * Status: resolved

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