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CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY 419 Figure 15-17. Comment moderation queue Note The comments marked as spam are not deleted from the database. Furthermore, WordPress has no way to show you those comments marked as spam. The thinking behind this is that at some point, someone will create a spam analysis plug-in that could use the comments marked as spam to better detect future spam comments, much as several e-mail filters do now. So far, no one has created that plug-in. However, a good number of WordPress plug-ins are designed to help you combat comment spam with varying levels of effectiveness. Also, an article on the WordPress Codex discusses a number of methods for combating comment spam (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam for details). Providing Comment Feeds Comments are available to your readers as feeds. There is a feed for the most recent comments on your blog, as well the latest comments from an individual post. If you use the default theme, the link to the comment feed is provided in the footer of every page. If you have a hot topic that generates a lot of comments, comment feeds are another great way to keep your readers involved. They can monitor the conversation with any of a number of feed readers and aggregators, without needing to remember to check your site regularly. Adding Multiple Authors You may want to invite other authors to contribute to your blog. Maybe you know people in your specific community (virtual or otherwise) who have interesting things to say. Maybe you want someone to share the load of keeping up with all that is happening in your field.
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