Question Moderate Guests Not Working

I am not sure this is bug or not, but something is not right.

I have enabled Public Posts in Forum. In category settings public access has rights to reply to posts.

In security settings, Moderate Guests setting is Yes.

Still, when people reply, posts are not moderated. They are published automatically.

I am not claiming to know the answer - and if you are correct (in the sense that your forum is fairly typical) this would be a serious problem from a security perspective - but it may help us to know the context if you watch the video vimeo.com/69818669 .

I am also not claiming to be knowledgeable in this area because I never allow, under any circumstances, guests to post in any forum that I manage. I understand that there may be circumstances when people feel it's OK to allow guests to post but, I'm just saying, I don't have experience in such cases.

I installed Kunena Discuss as replacement of comments, so I do not want people to login or register to just leave a comment.

I have only one category where only replies are allowed by guests, not even creating new threads.

I have enabled Moderate Guests, but it is not working

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This could be an Apache problem or it could be related to your Joomla site template but, because you have edited those parts of your configuration report, I can't be sure. If you edit your configuration report you're tying our hands as far as helping you.

I'm "flying blind in a snowstorm" because you edited your config. report.

You may (or may not) be aware of issues relating to guest posting with the Kunena Discuss module: see Kunena Discuss 3.0 Plugin does not allow guests to be the first to post article comments.

Apart from that, and because you edited your config. report (and because I have no experience otherwise in managing websites where guests may post on the forum) I have no other ideas to help you. Perhaps another member of the community, with more experience than me, can offer you some useful pointers.

rgblogs wrote: I am not sure this is bug or not, but something is not right.

I have enabled Public Posts in Forum. In category settings public access has rights to reply to posts.

In security settings, Moderate Guests setting is Yes.

Still, when people reply, posts are not moderated. They are published automatically.

I have the same issue, did you ever figure it out?

Guests can reply from within Kunena and replies require moderation (which is what I want), but when adding the comment through Joomla (using the Kunena Discuss plugin) the moderation is bypassed completely.