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”