No feedback given to commenter when "Name" field empty

[WK1]

On my installation, name and email are not required to post a comment. I must approve every comment before it appears. If a user chooses to give their name anyway, then after they post their comment, they get a screen that says "Blah says:" and below that "Your comment is awaiting moderation." This is expected behavior.

However, if the user does not give their name, then they do not get any sort of confirmation that their comment was sent. It is sent successfully, but the user should have confirmation, otherwise they will likely try more than once before giving up in frustration.

I have tested this bug using Firefox 3.0, with and without JS enabled, and Internet Explorer 6.

No patch.

Oh, probably important to note, this was patched against r12781

Please explain how your patch fixes the current bug, as I fail to understand it.

And why do you pass an empty string to $wpdb->prepare() ?

It fixes the bug, because WordPress does not query pending comments if the Comment Author is blank/anonymous, which means when redirected back to the post/#comments - you get no confirmation that your comment was sent through.

As far as $wpdb-prepare, that actually could be changed. Will attach a new patch when I've tested the change.

This patch isn't safe, by removing the approved status check, you're allowing for non-approved comments to be seen by users with blank usernames, that includes their posts, and any others that there may be.

Moving to Future Release as this isnt a regression from a previous version and we dont have a usable patch

This patch shows recent anonymous comments from the current visitor (best guess at least). It does however mean abandoning the get_comments API and making the query a lot more complicated... is it worth it?