mollom just got punted
Mollom’s been doing a simply outstanding job of blocking spam lately, after the warm-up period. Unfortunately, it appears to be doing a bang-up job of blocking legitimate, breathing humans who are trying (and failing) to comment. I’m moving antispam back to Akismet for awhile, and am hoping it’s just a growing pain for Mollom – I really like the system and design, but can’t have valid people frustrated when they try to post comments. For now, it’s back to moderating comments through Akismet…
I thought Mollom used a captcha if it thought a comment was spam, so that when real users make comments that seem to be spam, they can still comment.
Yeah. But the captcha was failing, and even when providing valid captcha responses people were being rejected as spam.