Mollom vs Akismet

[smartwatchme]

Having the Akismet plug-in is certainly a great addition to Discourse, but I’m wondering if Mollom was ever considered as well? After digging into the API, it seems as though Mollom does have some advantages:

• Blacklisting words
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#blacklist)
• Whitelisting users and sources.
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#whitelist)
• Uses a tracking Image to get more detailed user data, hence - allow
  better spam protection due to the more detailed obtained data.
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#captcha-fba)
• Captcha API (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#captcha)
• Honeypot support on top of the content analysis feature
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#api-content see
  “honeypot”)
• Rate Limiting for any consumer of a website set by the API
  configuration.
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#api-content see
  “rateLimit”)
• Strictness setting to allow mollom to more punitive or more
  permissive for certain content submissions. Additional internal
  knowledge on how to fight user registration spam, which requires a
  more detailed investigation compared to regular “comments”.
  (https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#api-content see “type”

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

If someone wants to write a plugin for it following the Akismet example, that’d be great!

Akismet is working perfectly for us, though like any Bayesian filter it does take some initial training.

[riking (Kane York)]

@smartwatchme

Uses a tracking Image to get more detailed user data, hence - allowbetter spam protection due to the more detailed obtained data.(https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#captcha-fba)

This is useless for Discourse, as without some extremely custom-built tools you can’t post without a browser.