In reply to James B Chigozie.

Hi James. You need to be logged in in order to see the moderation tools. Unless you are an Admin or an Editor you won't see any of the moderation tools. Here's a few points which might set you more at ease:

1. The back end moderation tools continue to work as before when Thoughtful Comments is enabled.
2. Thoughtful Comments is full compatible with Akismet and other comment plugins (subscription plugins for instance).
3. You can enable and disable Thoughtful Comments freely with no damage or change to your comments database. We support the core Wordpress commenting structure throughout the plugin.

Still, if your site is a low comment zone, there's no need for Thoughtful Comments. We created Thoughtful Comments for one of the most heavily commented political sites on the net. Moderation pre-Thoughtful Comments was a nightmare (sock puppets, banned trolls reregistering). Moderation post-Thoughtful Comments was much faster and more effective. Moreover via the front end moderation duties could be easily shared with non-technical editors.

So many sites have been forced into using Disqus due to the weak moderation tools inside Wordpress. Installing Disqus means losing control of your comment database, suffering slow page loads and taking a big SEO penalty (all those comments appear in javascript only unless you really know what you are doing). Thoughtful Comments lets even the most voluble sites enjoy native commenting with its attendant privacy, performance and SEO benefits.