How to add comments policy to a WordPress blog

I’ve just figured out how to add a comments policy to a WordPress blog. It was a little more difficult than I expected.

Basically, I just wanted to add a short statement to my comment form saying “spammy comments will be deleted…”.

Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology to search (‘comments policy’, ‘how to add comments policy’, etc.) or maybe there aren’t that many people who are trying to add such a policy. Who knows.

I finally found a simple plug-in from AlexKing.org called Comment License which is posted on WordPress.org.

Perhaps ‘comment license’ is the more proper term for it vs. ‘comment policy’. But actually, based on his default text, I think he had something a bit different in mind. His text is, in fact, more like a ‘license’ whereas I am looking to add something more policy oriented about what type of comments will be approved.