Title: Visitors can't post comments
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Visitors can't post comments

 *  [Rob Cubbon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcub/)
 * (@robcub)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/)
 * Everything else seems to be fine. I’ve optimized and repaired the database, deleted
   spam comments.
 * I have Akismet, GASP and Subscribe to Comment Reloaded.
 * When somebody tries to leave a comment, they get:
 * You already have too many comments in moderation. Please wait until your existing
   comments have been approved before attempting to leave more comments.
 * on this site: [http://robcubbon.com](http://robcubbon.com)

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 *  Thread Starter [Rob Cubbon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcub/)
 * (@robcub)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109199)
 * OK, I’ve purged all the cache on my MaxCDN CDN then immediately got two lovely
   spam comments that were missed by Akismet then I logged out and successfully 
   posted a comment with the ID of a regular commenter and so it appears to be back
   to normal.
 * However, I’ve no idea what happened here and I would love to know how to stop
   it happening again.
 *  [itskev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itskev/)
 * (@itskev)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109220)
 * I don’t go around leaving comments all the time and I am getting this same error
   message when posting a comment on someone’s blog and I have never posted a comment
   on it before. It would be nice to know what the issue is.
 *  [vtwinfitness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtwinfitness/)
 * (@vtwinfitness)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109285)
 * Having same issue on clients site. Any ideas on a fix would be appreciated.
 *  [vtwinfitness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtwinfitness/)
 * (@vtwinfitness)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109286)
 * Ok I’ve been testing and it seems there’s an issue with GASP. Deactivate and 
   problem goes away. Also, can’t update the plugin.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109287)
 * Please post in the plugin’s own sub-forum per
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post)
 * Starting your own thread would be good as well.
 *  [vtwinfitness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtwinfitness/)
 * (@vtwinfitness)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109288)
 * Thank you WPyogi. I’ve already been there and posted the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Rob Cubbon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcub/)
 * (@robcub)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109301)
 * I’ve managed to update GASP. I’m still getting messages. But then I don’t know
   how many people have had this issue and not notified me of it.
 * Andy Bailey (GASP plugin author) has reported that he has fixed the issue [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-leave-comments-4?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-leave-comments-4?replies=4)
 * I’ve been getting a bit of spam as well.

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 * Last reply from: [Rob Cubbon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcub/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visitors-cant-post-comments/#post-4109301)
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