The locations of settings for administration of comments in Drupal 6 are as follows:

  • control access for various comment module functions through access permissions administer >> user management >>permissions.
  • administer comments administer >> content >> comments.
  • administer comment settings administer >> content >> content types and then choose the content type for specific content settings.
  • enable the recent comments block: administer >> site building >> blocks

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amartya’s picture

amartya commented

"Your comment has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be published after approval"

How do you get this message to display after comment is posted?

Regards,
Amartya

globefox’s picture

globefox commented

Hello that's a tricky one as the comments template is not that themeable. Have a look at this thread e
here.. http://www.systemseed.com/blog/how-customise-comment-form-drupal-6

Hope this helps

Vitorluiz’s picture

Vitorluiz commented

dear friends,
about one year ago our website www.pjmp.org have been attacked by spams which left thousands of comments on many pages.
after some captchas and restrictions, I have no more problems.
I've got to erase the large amount of spams that once invaded my website, and I want to do it quickly.
but the list of comments to be (un)approved is very little: it only displays about 50 comments/page.
How can I get to expand it ? Is it possible to have more comments displayed in each page ?
Thanks for your support !

Shelter’s picture

Shelter commented

I have the same problem with my page www.vippi-vertailu.fi.
I was spammed with maybe 1000 comments, and I can only erase 50 at a time.
Is there a way to clear the whole comments approval queue?

Thanks

christen’s picture

christen commented

and I would be very happy to know how, if you found a quick solution (using Drupal v. 6)

PoolBum’s picture

PoolBum commented

I have the same issue with even a greater number of comments to go through. Even trying to delete them 50 at a time often gets an error message. Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks.

Diego Ruiz del Árbol’s picture

Diego Ruiz del Árbol commented

If you just want to delete this comments you can modify temporarily the comment_admin_overview function in comment.admin.inc file, in comment module. Once there, replace both appearances of 50 for the number of comments you want to delete (for example: 300).

$result = pager_query('SELECT c.subject, c.nid, c.cid, c.comment, c.timestamp, c.status, c.name, c.homepage, u.name AS registered_name, u.uid, n.title as node_title FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = c.uid INNER JOIN {node} n ON n.nid = c.nid WHERE c.status = %d'. tablesort_sql($form['header']['#value']), 300, 0, NULL, $status);
...
$form['pager'] = array('#value' => theme('pager', NULL, 300, 0));

Comment is a core module so, once you are done, you should leave it as it was!.
If you want to have it as a definitive solution, you should write a small module.

You can delete all comments as well directly in database, using phpMyAdmin or similar.

jswap’s picture

jswap commented

If the spam comments were submitted by a small number of user accounts, the User Delete module can help:

http://drupal.org/project/user_delete

Simply delete the user, then select the "block user and unpublish all submitted content" option.