Eliminate moderation on admin comments

[heather_r]

Currently, if comment moderation is enabled, comments left by the admin are also moderated, requiring approval before they're posted.

Proposed change: If comment moderation is activated, all replies and comments left by the admin are auto-approved.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

see also #11277

[westonruter]

This is no longer valid. Comments are auto-approved in wp_allow_comment if the currently-logged in users have the moderate_comments capability, which admins obviously will have:

if ( isset( $user ) && ( $user_id == $post_author || $user->has_cap( 'moderate_comments' ) ) ) {
    // The author and the admins get respect.
    $approved = 1;
}

​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.2/wp-includes/comment.php#L691