"Kill spam". Sounds beautiful doesn't it?
I'd gotten irritated with the amount of spam comments we were getting on xn--e1ale9b.xn--j1aef.xn--p1acf so I decided to try a new module out. I was looking around on Drupal.org and noticed Mollom, a new module that's being used by Sony BMG, Adobe, Warner Bros and FastCompany, among others.
The great thing about Mollom is that it doesn't stop your users from posting comments with ugly CAPTCHAs unless it's concerned that they might not be human. In other words, people can carry on using your site as usual and, only once in a while, they'll get shown a screen to confirm their human-ness.
Let's face it, people-submitted content runs the internet. We're slowing our own growth down by putting hundreds of barriers between our users' comments and us. So, by using intelligent text-analysis and other goodies, Mollom makes it possible for us to focus on great content instead of blocking people.
Mollom is actively developed and maintained by Dries Buytaert, the founder and project lead of Drupal core.
Tags: mollom, comment spam, spam
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Chris Luckhardt is a Canadian web media specialist, working in industry since the late 1990s. Over the course of his career in Canada, Chris has worked with countless technologies, equally splitting his time between the worlds of design and development.
Daryl (not verified) | Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:03
Thanks for the useful information. As Drupal Trends continue to increase, I'm constantly looking for new ways to combat spam.
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