After months of testing, Mollom has finally gone public beta. Mollom is a web service that checks comments and other content for spam similar to what Akismet does. The nice thing is that when it's not sure about a message, it doesn't place it in a moderation queue but instead shows the user a CAPTCHA. For more information, see "How mollom works".
I've been testing the module the past few months and it works pretty well. Very few spam comments got past the filters while at the same time most of the regular visitors never had to fill out an ugly CAPTCHA. They also have some interesting goals, not limited to just blocking spam, but checking the quality of content as well.
And most important, it has fancy graphs ;)
It will be interesting to see how this evolves and if their infrastructure can handle all the new users. Earlier today the website itself was unreachable because of a major power outage in the LCL datacenter where the website is hosted. Luckily the web service itself is distributed across multiple locations and as far as I can tell it just kept working. Leave it to Murphy to test your fail-over on the very first day..
My name is Bart Jansens.
Oh wait, is *this* the thing that believes me to be spam *every time* I post something on g.d.o? In that case, at least I now know who to complain to (but not before some more testing).
Hehe, i believe it is. But its still better than showing everyone a captcha every time they want to post something.
Of course there is probably room for improvement, after all its only a beta.
I've used this on my Drupal Tutorial site for awhile and its worked great! I love not having the captcha show unless someone is adding a link or something. I've found that it works very well in practice even if it has a few glitches to work out
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