MT Comment Registration Somewhat Funky

If you are commenting, or not commenting, or trying to comment (oh, go ahead, comment!), be warned that the comment registration feature seems way buggy. I put in a help ticket. I’m handling comments a little differently in the future–I eyeballed a posting from Liz Lawley talking about scripts that close comments after a period, and I think that’s my route–so I’m not sweating bullets. I’ll post any replies from Six Apart I get on this.

[Help Ticket Text]

I upgraded to 3.0, and it went surprisingly well, given that I’m exactly the sort of person who shouldn’t be doing this. However, I’m a bit baffled by comment registration management issues.

I don’t see any of the current approved commenters (many of whom are comment spam, unfortunately) listed in the Commenters area, including several I added last night to test the comment registration feature. When I list Comments, these users are “approved,” and there is no way to ban them from there, either. When I see users listed in the Comments area that I want to ban, I can’t ban them. I can approve them, or delete their posts, but I can’t ban them.

I have comments set this way:

Accept Comments from Unregistered Visitors: UNchecked
Accept Comments from Registered Visitors: Checked
The typekey token is entered, autoapproval is NOT enabled, and e-mail addresses are NOT required.

I plan to manually disable comments tonight on nearly all of my older posts (I was using MT-Blacklist, which turned into a laborious cat-and-mouse game), so comment spam will be (temporarily) managed that way, and this is soemwhat moot. But I’m curious. Is this a general “developer edition” bugginess, or does this speak to something I did wrong in the upgrade process–a library not installed, etc…? (I had one external library I had overwritten, which I did fix from my old, carefully backed-up site.) Everything else seems, well, strangely easy and functional.

I do love the potential of this comment registration feature!