The general consensus among professional bloggers seems to be that you should publish all comments that come into your blog - bar those that might land you in legal hot water perhaps.
You will find storm-in-a-teacup arguments brewing all over the ‘blogosphere’ about comment deletion and related issues. If you tightly moderate comments, and particularly [...]

You’ve probably seen this done on blogs, comments by the author have a different background colour to differentiate them - it’s handy when you’re scanning comments to see the authors own response.
A lot of people use the ScriptyGoddess solution, it involves hardcoding an email address and then when you comment it checks the email address [...]