Mollom - The Bullet Proof Vest

I can remember the good old days when blog spammers were as bad or worse than email spammers. I've mananged to quelch the noise of my email spam through the Google's Email service. It's nice to hear myself think again when I open my inbox. Now I'm deluged mostly by stuff I ask for.

Protection from blog and web form spam has been another issue entirely. Things have come along, but they all have required my attention. I haven't been deleting thousands of comment spams a week on my blog for a long time, but the methods for protection were always a nasty necessity. I wanted my noble readers to be able to participate in the discussion immediately. Having to wait for me to wake up and realize that they have commented and then letting their comment through the net slowed thing downs in a fast world.

Mollom is helping to change that. Mollom is a super-intelligent big benevolent brother style web app. It checks every comment that comes to any place a user submits for a variety of things. Then grants permission for the submission or, in the event of potential spam submission, simply asks the user to submit a CAPTCHA to assert their humanity. A captcha would look something like this image.

All this means, the content on the site is pure, not diluted by the evils of this world. Pure, meaningful and trustworthy content means more activity from your visitors. If their experience in pleasant, not inhibited by spam checking devices or spent filtering spam themselves, they are much more likely to return.

I'm really pleased that this issue is finally finding a solution to clean up the mess without bothering me or slowing people down. So far, it has not only done better than I do at handling my comment form spam, it has been doing better than Gmail does at catching my email spam. :-)


great sight

Si elle s’est réalisé dans sa forme la plus achevée à la fin de ce XXe siècle, la lutte contre l’impunité trouve cissp cependant ses fondements dans l’histoire plus ancienne. En effet, les premiers éléments archéologiques de la création d’une justice pénale internationale se manifestent dès le XVe siècle, lorsqu’en 1474, pour la première fois, une Cour internationale ad hoc se réunit pour juger ce qui serait aujourd’hui considéré comme des crimes de guerre et des crimes contre l’humanité : 27 juges provenant d’Allemagne, de Suisse et d’Autriche furent alors appelés à condamner le seigneur Peter Von Hagenbach pour exactions, homicides et pillage. Cependant, il faudra attendre la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, et les atrocités cissp certification des guerres franco-prussiennes, pour voir l’émergence des premières propositions explicites. Dès lors les projets se succèdent, sans suite. A la fin de la 1ere Guerre Mondiale des efforts sont déployés pour la mise en place de tribunaux spéciaux, en vain. De même, le Traité de Sèvres de 1920 visant prioritairement la poursuite des auteurs du génocide arménien n’a jamais connu d’application, en raison de l’opposition des Etats-Unis. Manque de soutien des Etats, enjeux de réconciliation nationale, impunité indiscutable des vainqueurs sont autant de raisons qui mirent un frein au souci de mise en application de la justice. Ce n’est que le choc terrible provoqué par les crimes abominables de la seconde Guerre Mondiale, et particulièrement de la Shoa, qui ont enfin posé la nécessité absolue d’une justice internationale. Les tribunaux de Nuremberg et de Tokyo deviennent les premiers antécédents effectifs de ce qui sera la CPI. Il est important de rappeler, dans ce cadre, que c’est un des anciens juges français de tribunal de Nuremberg, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, qui pour la première fois, propose aux Nations-Unis la création d’une cour Pénale Internationale permanente. Ainsi, dès le 21 novembre 1947, l’Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies adopte la création d’une Commission de Droit International (CDI) ayant pour mandat l’élaboration des principes reconnus par la Charte de Nuremberg, et d’un code des crimes contre la paix et la sécurité de l’humanité. Un projet de statut d’une CPI est proposé en 1951 et révisé en 1953. Cependant, en raison des remous de la guerre froide ainsi que des difficultés à trouver une définition consensuelle à la notion de crime d’agression, le travail sur la CPI est suspendu. Au tournant des années 90, le projet de la Cour Pénale Internationale est comptia a+ enfin remis à l’ordre du jour. En effet, la désapprobation de l’Apartheid par les pays d’Afrique, la motivation des pays latino-caribéens à lutter contre le narcotrafic, les exactions commises en Yougoslavie et au Rwanda,

l’Assemblée Générale des

l’Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies adopte la création d’une Commission de Droit International (CDI) ayant pour mandat l’élaboration des principes reconnus par la Charte de Nuremberg, et d’un code des corporate gifts crimes contre la paix et la sécurité de l’humanité. Un projet de statut d’une CPI est proposé en 1951 et révisé en 1953. Cependant, en raison des remous de la guerre froide ainsi que des difficultés à trouver une définition consensuelle à la notion de crime d’agression,

Actually i came here while

Actually i came here while surfing net to get data related to projects of home loans and find this post different one...Is there anyone having information about unsecured loans?if yes than do tell me!By the way what is your opinion about insurance AND interest?is it ethical?i dont think so!Any updates?The way how u tried to explain some posts at here seems to me different...there are certainly different posts at here,but i didnt find any post related to projects like business loans...if someone have information about it,do tell me!Well any updates related to this post?if yes than do tell me!

Yeah Buddy!

I think that CAPTCHA help form your computer getting virus and worms.

http://www.breldyng.net

Completing the CAPTCHA...

The captchas do help a lot when it comes to spam, I highly recommend using them. However sometimes its hard for ME to complete!

Jennifer Brown

Spam

I dont understand why people spam. Especially the email spam. Do people actually fall for those scams? You know...the I was the finance minister of a small african country for 10 years looking for investment partners....Blog spam is something I have to deal with as well. I use wordpress and I find that akismet does a great job with all the spam.

Brad

Please complete the CAPTCHA! :)

Yes I totally got to agree with you and that comment spam being the main the culprit for bloggers. .I have also found couple of other similar services ie Recapcha, and Askimet which does a great job. Keep posting Josiah!

thanks,
Ben.
Doctor Position Australia

How does it compare to ReCaptcha?

I have couple of sites in Drupal, Joomla & Wordpress on which i have always used ReCaptcha and found it useful. Do you know how does mollom compare to ReCaptcha?
Technology
Partners

Hi Josiah, I just returned to

Hi Josiah, I just returned to the blogging world myself and I too am trying to find a different solution for posting comments using b2evo. I don't really care for having to approve every post like you mention and I don't think b2evo has the little trick you and Tim have incorporated into your sites so as far as I know that solution is out the window.

One solution I could probably get by with is having my readers log in like you have here on your blog.

I'll check into that as soon as I'm done posting here.

Anyway, I hope everything works out for you with your new implementation.

David M.