We’re going to implement a configuration change for SquidgeWorld Archive that will affect all users that post fanworks and allow comments. Long story short, the “Comment Moderation” functionality will be enabled for all new works by default. This is the one we mean:
Long story long, our recent influx of commission spammers, including the clown that we had to quash multiple times over the last two days, the commission artists no longer care if they use a valid email address. They just want to post their “Give me money for a commission!” and hope that you hit them up on Discord or such. In order to combat this, we are making the default for all new works to have comment moderation enabled. So if you get notification of a comment on your works, you can choose to display it manually after you approve or not. Enabling the behavior by default means it’ll be turned on and all comments on that work moderated.
If you don’t want the setting, you can simply uncheck it when posting your work, or go in after it’s posted and then disable the setting.
This will happen during Sunday morning maintenance, which as always is every Sunday morning from 7am to 9am Pacific Time. Questions?
That’s a very good default to have 👍
Thanks for stopping the commission scammers.