By spongepudding on

Hi

New Drupal user here. I've searched the forum and found lots of posts about anonymous comments not working (from 2008 back to 2004) but no solutions.

I'm using Drupal 6.6 and I've...

Edited the content types to allow anonymous comments (Read/Write, must leave details)
Edit User Management->Permissions and set 'access comments' and 'post comments' for anonymous users

Anonymously posted comments appear to be accepted but don't show in the approval queue.

Can anyone tell me does this feature actually work?

TIA

Paul

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suryanto
Primary language Indonesian
Location Bali, Indonesia
commented

Yes, it is works. For approval queue, do not enable 'post comments without approval' for anonymous.

Cheers,
Suryanto Rachmat
http://rachmat.net

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spongepudding commented

Thanks for the reply but I still can't get it working. I don't have 'post comments without approval' enabled so it's not that.

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spongepudding commented

Any one help please?

(Sorry if bumping is frowned upon)

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dchaffin commented

Do you have CRON jobs running? I was having the same comment issues as you. I ran CRON manually and all of a sudden a number of comments showed up in the approval queue. I'm not certain about setting up CRON jobs on my server, so I installed the Poormanscron module (http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron). My comments seem to be working fine now.

Delford Chaffin
Dream Catcher Creative
www.dreamcc.com

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chadcross commented

Same problem. Anon can fill out the form and the page refreshes after hitting submit but nothing shows up in the approval queue. I am on 6.9 and cron runs daily.

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Philip Small commented

Only local images are allowed.

Using D6.6. An anon has left 2 comments but they are not visible to anons or authenticated users. I can see as Admin, but no way to approve or publish. Permissions are set so anons can see comments, and post comments, but not post comments without approval. ??

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chadcross commented

I just checked the database and the comments are being added to the comments table. They just arent showing up in the approval queue.

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Nick_TPT commented

Exact same problem here, same version (6.9).

If I update the uid entry in the comments table manually to that of a registered user, the comments appear (both on the node and in the admin comment queue).

So basically this bug relates to comments with uid=0.

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chadcross commented

Check this out. http://drupal.org/node/371834

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Konstantin_by commented

I just go to database table "users" in first column change uid=16 to uid=0.

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terryallan commented

I am experiencing this lack of comments in approval queue. Perhaps the suggested solution does work, but why is it happening???

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hansamurai commented

What happened to me when I moved hosts (transferred database), the anon uid 0 got changed to the highest uid used + 1. Not sure why, but simply changing it back to zero works perfectly.

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slicedsoup commented

this had happened to me and when I checked the user table in the database it seemed that the record for UID 0 had been deleted, so the solution in my case was to simply add a new record for a user will all the main fields set to zero. Have a look at the database for a clean drupal install to see exactly how this should look.