While I appreciate having mollum activated, and hope it cuts back on the spam, I wonder If there's a way to disable the verification for users that have had a specified number of posts successfully submitted?
I haven't looked at the module recently, might be able to figure it out myself before John replies, if so, I'll post the answer to my question here.
[EDIT] fixed post title
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It shouldn't do anything for normal posts and only present a captcha if your post is iffy.
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It might be that as I was posting from my phone, the user-agent was being recognized, and mollum flagged the posts. Not too sure.
Really? My recent post about updating AkelPad was picked up as iffy.
https://portableapps.com/development/outdated#comment-197728
Note: As did this post (probably the link?)
Both in this reply, and in my reply here.
Links are looking like a good bet.
Apparently my post here was iffy.
No hard feelings, I know how those things work, and the captcha was easy to solve. And I haven't been a regular member here in a while, so it doesn't affect me much. I just thought I'd throw that out there, figured people would be talking about it.
But I also found this topic, nice little trip down memory lane (about 2 years ago) where we were all talking about it, John having "ditched" Mollom.
Honestly I'm more worried about the two-step posting (preview/save) than a captcha, except the latter presents issues (sometimes) when accessing from a mobile device.
(And this post got flagged for verification too. Lovely.)
Unfortunately, our spam level is so high now that we simply have to be using something. Here's our current Mollom processing level
Notice that we get over 100 spam messages every day and an occasional spike far above that. Every one of those messages is from an account confirmed with an email address and that has passed a captcha to setup the account. So, without Mollom, all 100-450 of those messages would show up in the forums every day and have to be manually moderated by us, which would be a nightmare.
It's a combination of this site being very popular (2 million absolute unique visitors a month will do that) plus forum spammers being more sophisticated and having 'queues' of accounts that they setup one week and use to spam 5-10 days later, automated setting up of Yahoo and other mail account to tie to their accounts here so we can't simply block domains, and paying people pennies in 3rd world countries to solve captchas.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I understand John, and it caught me again (bug report, albeit not a very thorough one, in the Firefox forum) but I don't really mind. Much easier to read than reCaptcha, that's for sure. And if it helps your site I'm all for that.
It's supposed to learn as it goes, so we'll see. We're getting a ton of Russian, wedding, watch, etc spam now. And it's all organized groups that pay people in 3rd world countries to fill in captchas. The groups aren't smart enough to realize that their SEO optimized links won't gain them a thing since they're all NOFOLLOWed, but we still have to clean it all up. There was an issue with Mollom properly recognizing the submitter IPs but it is working properly now which will help as many of the open proxies they use are heavily blocked. I'm specifically not excluding any users so we admins, devs and translators can ensure it is working properly.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!