mollom

For the first time in a long, long time not a single spam comment got posted to my blog overnight. Every morning, for the last couple of years at least, I have to despam the blog every morning as at least one or two sneak past. None got through last night. Yay, mollom!

mollom just pushed over the 95% efficiency mark, and it’s getting better. looks like it’s warming up and fine tuning itself to deal with the strains of spam that get sent my way.

So far, Mollom has blocked or moderated 2654 messages on your website of which you moderated 5.69% yourself.

Update: doh. I really suck at basic math. I’ve had to moderate > 5%, meaning mollom is _almost_ running at 95% efficiency. But it’s still getting better by the hour, so should hit 95% very soon…

I just finished deleting 2408 accounts from weblogs.ucalgary.ca which had been created in order to publish spam. No spam actually got published, but it was annoying having these orphaned accounts in there. I’ve added Mollom to the site, and hopefully it curtails the silly spam account creation. Sometimes leaving things open is such a pain.

so far, mollom is only blocking about 90% of spam attempts. which would be fine, except I’ve already had 219 spam comment attempts in the few hours since enabling mollom – so over 20 spam comments have snuck through to get published. that’s almost forgivable as a fact of online life, and maybe growing pains in mollom itself – but apparently there are false positives as well. that’s just unforgivable. and mollom nukes anything it thinks is spammy, so there’s no recovery or second chances… not sure if mollom will survive the full week test run…