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Whereas the built in moderation just looks for keywords wherever they appear in the comments, Better Moderation allows you to define if it should just be the username, url, email, comment, ip, useragent or all of them. 
It also allows you to define if when looking for “word” whether you should match “WordPress”. 
Finally it lets you set reasons why words have been added to the list, allowing you to quickly realise why a comment has been added to the moderation queue.

Better Moderation

Provides more control over comment moderation

Federico Andrioli

Auto approve comments by Commenter (email, name, url), User and Role (Akismet and wpDiscuz compatible).
Usage
<ol>
<li>Open Comments -> Auto Approve Comments</li>
<li>Go to Settings -> Discussion and check “Comment must be manually approved” </li>
<li>Optionally install and activate Akismet (comments flagged as SPAM will never get auto approved) </li>
<li>Configure your auto approval filters in “Commenters”, “Users” and “Roles”</li>
<li>Save and you’re done</li>
</ol>
From now on all the comments that match at least one of the configurations in “Commenters”, “Users” or “Roles” will always be auto approved.
Commenters – example
Add one Commenter per line, follow the example below:
<pre><code>tom@myface.com
tom@myface.com,Tom
tom@myface.com,www.myface.com
tom@myface.com,www.myface.com,Tom
tom@myface.com,Tom,www.myface.com
</code></pre>
Users – example
Add one Username per line, follow the example below:
<pre><code>steveknobs76
jeffmezos012
larrymage98
marktuckerberg2004
</code></pre>
Roles – example
Add one Role per line, follow the example below:
<pre><code>contributor
editor
yourcustomrole
subscriber
</code></pre>
Developers
Official Github repository: 
https://github.com/fedeandri/auto-approve-comments

Auto Approve Comments

Auto approve comments by Commenter (email, name, url), User and Role (Akismet and wpDiscuz compatible)

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