Let's focus on the checkboxes on the Settings | Discussion page that relate to submission, notification, and moderation. The boxes that are checked on this page will determine how much moderation and checking a comment has to go through before it gets posted on the blog.
First, let's look at the settings that have to do with moderation visible under Before a comment appears. These two options have to do with the circumstances that allow comments to appear on the site:
- Comment must be manually approved: If this box is checked, every comment has to be manually approved by you before it appears ...
