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In an effort to test out Mollom and foster more talk on the blogs, we have enabled anonymous commenting.
LevelTen has a very high page rank in Google and is frequently targeted by link builders. They'll register for an account, write something that takes only a minute to write and then link to a site that is wholly unrelated to anything. The post is always on topic but lazy. I don't think these are bots. We'll find out if Mollom blocks those types of posts.
Please comment away!
Mollom seems to work very well
Sweet! As a drupal developer, I am always looking for good modules to include in my arsenal.
Ok, So after 4 days, Mollom
Ok, So after 4 days, Mollom has blocked 2,603 spam attempts! I knew we'd be opening the floodgates to spam bots with anonymous posting. I didn't have a big mess to clean up this morning so I'm happy so far!
Lee,
I'm referring to posts that are one or two lines and seem on topic but end with a link to a dubious site - generally sites offering viagra or xanax. Something that's clearly spam and the comment was for no other reason than link building. Thanks for the comment
Hoping you'll post the results here!
It will indeed be interesting to see how well Mollum works. Honestly, I'm not sure what you mean by sites that are "not related to anything", though. Do you mean blogs and sites that don't relate to your niche?
It's certainly difficult sometimes to discern between a legitimate comment and a spam comment, espacially when it was written by a human being. I mean, the "Nice blog" comments are pretty obvious... but if the comment is on point (related to the post), where do you draw the line between sincere discussion and spam?
I have my reservations about whether a software application can do a better job of this than a human. I hope that it does, as it sounds like you've been spending a lot of time weeding through questionable comments.
Looking forward to seeing some results on this!
Lee
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