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There have been a few side comments made about Mollom and the CAPTCHA on this site. It is only suppose to ask for a CAPTCHA if it thinks your post might be spam. As an admin, I don't see it, so tell me what you think. Is it intrusive? Does it ask all the time, occasionally, or rarely. Should we make changes, or is it working ok?
Thanks,
Andy

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My 2 Cents

When I first started posting it would appear almost regularly, but as I continued to post it has become quite less frequent. I usually preview any post, if that makes any difference, but it is at the point now where I'm almost surprised if it asks for confirmation. Based only on my use and at least on my low number of posts I would say that it is working as it should.

I also wouldn't be bothered if it asked more frequently, as I recently got notification that a subscribed topic was updated only to go and see that it was a spam comment. That was much more aggravating, not to mention the waste of my time to go and check it out.

One infrequently posting user's opinion.

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Re: My 2 Cents

I imagine that people who put links in their signatures are more likely to get a CAPTCHA. I think you're right about Mollom learning to trust particular users, though.

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Thanks Lyle

I find that I make a post and get told it's spam, even though the three links on the post all point to Drupal.org or Ubercart.org and therefore should probably be whitelisted. But I guess if you're using Mollom you don't control the whitelisting of link URLs?

But as you say, with a link in my .sig it may be the fourth link which is triggering the spam filter. Here's hoping Mollom will learn who I am over time Smiling

EDIT: huh. So Mollom didn't trigger the spam filter on this post - apparently my URL is not so spammy after all in its eyes (yay!).

Which means that a post with many links seems to fire up the spam-gobblers, even when those URLs are to drupal.org and ubercart.org

That's a pity for those of us who get into using hyperlinks (gotta love that term) to cross-reference information. As some folks do, on the internet Smiling

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Re: Thanks Lyle

I kept getting the spam filter warning when making a post just a little while ago. It didn't go away until I took out all the line returns I was using to pace and format the message. Very frustrating, especially because it wasn't giving me a captcha or any means to provve that I was human just a "Your message looks like spam, so we won't post it. Kthxbye" message. Talk about monitor-tossing UI failure. Sad