# Mollom vs Akismet

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** akismet\
**Created:** [13 أغسطس 2015، 3:33م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mollom-vs-akismet/32069 "2015-08-13T15:33:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [13 أغسطس 2015، 3:33م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mollom-vs-akismet/32069/1 "2015-08-13T15:33:20Z")

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Having the Akismet plug-in is certainly a great addition to Discourse, but I’m wondering if [Mollom](http://www.mollom.com) 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](https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#blacklist))
- Whitelisting users and sources.  
([https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#whitelist](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](https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#captcha-fba))
- Captcha API ([https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#captcha](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](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](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](https://docs.acquia.com/mollom/api/rest/list#api-content) see “type”

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