From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Setting the comment policy

Setting the comment policy - Drupal Tutorial

From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Setting the comment policy

The Internet showed us that anything that can be abused will be abused, and nowhere is that more evident than in comments and public forums. The good news is that Drupal gives you ways to control such abuse, and there are several methods to give you control over how comments appear on your site as well, including whether they're allowed at all. We will start by very quickly looking at comment permissions-- that is, whether people are allowed to comment at all. Those controls are in two places. The first one is in the Permissions screen, which you get to by going to People and then Permissions. We scroll down to the Comments area. The two most important ones here are Post comments and Skip comment approval. By default, only authenticated users are able to post comments, and they don't have to get your approval after they have posted them. What some administrators like to do is to give anonymous users permissions to post comments but not to skip comment approval. That means that they…

Contents