Plugin Review: WP Mollom

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1. Rofikul Islam Shahin (1 comments.) says:

   3/15/2009 at 11:55 pm

   “…that there is yet another secondary service to Akismet and this one offers a few extra features.”

   I guess I’m gonna try it out, of course, testing this kinda stuff are pretty time consuming, but Askimet’s been catching some good comments on my blog, I was kinda looking for something like this.

   Thanks
2. Joachim (4 comments.) says:

   3/16/2009 at 3:19 am

   Looks good to me! I will check it out!

   So long
   Joachim
3. George Serradinho (107 comments.) says:

   3/16/2009 at 4:53 am

   I can understand why so many people are developing their own spam plugins.

   It would be nice if you could get one plugin that had most of the options. I do understand that there is Askimet, but it does not catch all and sometimes catches comments and marks them as spam.
4. Danny Brown (2 comments.) says:

   3/17/2009 at 12:37 pm

   Have to wonder about the usefulness of a spam plug-in that still utilizes Captcha. This is one of the features that most blog commenters are complaining about and often deters comments from being left.
   • Matthias (2 comments.) says:

     3/18/2009 at 12:01 pm

     The point of Mollom is *not* to rely entirely on CAPTCHA’s to block spam.

     The idea is that CAPTCHA’s are used to help the system learn how it can differentiate between spam and ham.

     This means that:

     1/ a commenter will only see a CAPTCHA if Mollom is unsure about the spaminess of a comment.
     2/ Mollom is a neural network. More registered blogs will give it more feedback to finetune it’s ability to detect spam.
     3/ This would mean less CAPTCHA’s when the system get’s better at sniffing out spam.

     Statistics on my own blog tell me that regular commenters that are known by the Mollom network are never or rarely confronted with a CAPTCHA and over time, the amount of CAPTCHA’s that were shown decreases. The same would stand on other Mollom protected blogs.
5. Rui (1 comments.) says:

   3/17/2009 at 7:10 pm

   Have a try, thx~
6. Hikari (79 comments.) says:

   3/19/2009 at 7:22 pm

   Very nice initiative, we need more plugin reviews!

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