Comments on: Mind your comments, someone may be watching

By: Stefan

Stefan

As Rarst wrote the problem is actually in the plugin recent commments. You can still use this plugin to link to your comments, but do not publish them all over your site.

Good post which should make everyone think twice before approving a comment.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

I agree, everyone learns on their mistakes but the effect of this one comment was what amazed me initially.

By: Rarst

Rarst

My take is actual issue here are recent comments in sidebar. They exploded single poor quality comment into site-wide problem.

From programming perspective every single bit that comes from possibly non-safe source is heavily scrubbed and sanitized in WordPress. Neglecting to do same outside of what is possible with code can easily be recipe for such disaster.

Was it possible to predict this chain of events? Unlikely.

But it was possible to evaluate usage of recent comments widget site-wide, where there is no foolproof moderation in place.