Title: Crowd Control by Postmatic – Comment moderation decentralized Author: Postmatic Published: September 23, 2015 Last modified: May 17, 2019 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/crowd-control/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1251683) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/crowd-control/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1330812) # Crowd Control by Postmatic – Comment moderation decentralized By [Postmatic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vernal/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/crowd-control.1.1.1.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/#installation) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/) ## Description Crowd Control gives your users the ability to report comments as inappropriate with a single click. If a comment gets flagged multiple times it’ll be removed from the post and marked as pending moderation. We’ll even send you an email to let you know. Now you can still go away on vacation and rest assured the trolls won’t overrun your site. ## Screenshots * [[ * Simple settings on the Setings > Discussion screen. * [[ * A small report box is placed on your comment template allowing visitors to report a comment. * [[ * A new column is added to the comment moderation screen showing the number of times each comment has been reported. Comments which have been reported more than the allowed number of times (configured by you) are automatically sent to moderation. ## Installation 1. Download and unzip the plugin. 2. Copy the safe-report-comments directory into your plugins folder. 3. Visit your Plugins page and activate the plugin. 4. A new checkbox called “Allow comment flagging” will appear in the Settings->Discussion page. 5. Activate the flag and set the threshold value which will appear on the same page after activation. Set it to whatever you like. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f2949e1420c186ba7fe9eafb8f5c406b6b29ddebb639e7c7da6f93d39b784643? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Helpful for bigger sites](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpful-for-bigger-sites/)󠁿 [Martin Sauter](https://profiles.wordpress.org/martinsauter/) March 6, 2017 I’m happy to see that there is a solution for reporting comments as inappropriate on a WordPress website. Obviously this plug-in does only make sense for bigger sites with a lot of comments, but there it’s very helpful, especially of your site attracts spammers, trolls and alike. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e6f21554159993193c60ce04016e5f19b49e4edce3362a1af62429f139fe4bba? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[A great way to keep the discussion going on](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-great-way-to-keep-the-discussion-going-on-2/)󠁿 [solhuebner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/solhuebner/) September 3, 2016 1 reply Great addition for Postmatic and Epoch. Can not wait to see further improvements 🙂 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Crowd Control by Postmatic – Comment moderation decentralized” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Postmatic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vernal/) * [ Ronald Huereca ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ronalfy/) [Translate “Crowd Control by Postmatic – Comment moderation decentralized” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/crowd-control) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crowd-control/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/crowd-control/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crowd-control/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/crowd-control/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.1 * Compatibilty with WordPress 5.2 #### 1.1 * Nifty new icon. * Fixed a bug in which all comments were sent to moderation in certain situations. * The report button is not shown to logged-out users if you have ‘Users must be logged in to comment’ enabled. * Fixed errors in the add_flagging_link_comment() method. #### 1.0.1.1 * Released 2015-09-29 * Fixed a bug in which reporting a comment would throw a 500 error on certain cache setups. #### 1.0.1 * Released 2015-09-29 * Better positioning of Report link. * Fancy pretty new ajax confirmation of reported links. * Authors/Contributors/Editors/Admin comments now need 2x the number of reports before being sent to moderation. * Moderation emails are now sent via Postmatic if it is present. #### 1.0.0 * Released 2015-09-22 * Initial release. Based on [Safe Report Comments by Automattic](https://wordpress.org/plugins/safe-report-comments/)… brought up to date, improved, bugs all squashed, cookies added, internationalized, and integrated with Epoch and Postmatic. ## Meta * Version **1.1** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **20+** * WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.2.24** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/) * Tags * [comment moderation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comment-moderation/) [flagging](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/flagging/)[moderation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/moderation/) [reporting](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reporting/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/crowd-control/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Postmatic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vernal/) * [ Ronald Huereca ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ronalfy/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/crowd-control/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](https://gopostmatic.com)