By Matt Butcher
Why I am not a big fan of Mollom
Like many people, I spent the last few days away from my computer, spending the holidays with family. Today, when I logged in to post a brief blog entry, I found hundreds upon hundreds of SPAM comments had gotten through the Mollom blocking software that supposedly protects my comments section. I've been battling the comment SPAM for about a month -- it was around November 21 that I realized that Mollom was allowing huge amounts of SPAM through.
Here's my Mollom report from that period of time:
Mollom Report
This looks pretty impressive, except for the fact that almost all of the HAM messages were spurious. Of the messages I have received since Dec. 15, only one of the thousands was a legitimate comment.
I've dutifully reported as many of these to Mollom as I can (at some point, I just delete them in bulk). But this has gone on for over a month -- and I wasn't terribly thrilled with Mollom's success rate before. Deleting a few hundred comments a day is not my idea of a good use of time. Any suggestions?
i use Mollom and Defensio
i use Mollom and Defensio side by side on my blog and Mollom wasn't of big help as well. Defensio results got to be much much better. I made a short overview on this here http://blog.1smartsolution.com//index.cfm/action:posts.entry/id:248/Agai...
Has anyone done tried this for Drupal?
I'm just now building my first Drupal site and from what I've read, I'm concerned about spam comments. On a medium size Wordpress site I run (without captchas), Akismet was doing quite well, but was still letting through one to several spam per day (while stopping hundreds). As soon as I added the Cookies for Comments plugin, the spam completely stopped, and I've had zero in the last year or more. I haven't looked at the technique in detail, but it apparently depends on commenters allowing cookies--which I would assume is close to universal these days. Has anyone applied this method for Drupal?
That's a great idea
I like the idea... though I don't know how Drupal would do the same thing. My impression of Drupal's handling was that it required the user to have a session, which is usually stored in a cookie. But apparently, whatever the mechanism is, it can be pretty easily defeated.
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