mollom just got punted

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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…

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2 Responses to “mollom just got punted”

  1. akahn on August 19th, 2008 1:44 pm

    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.

  2. dnorman on August 19th, 2008 1:48 pm

    Yeah. But the captcha was failing, and even when providing valid captcha responses people were being rejected as spam.

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