Why isn't Mollom catching this spam?

Submitted by Anonymous on July 30, 2008 - 10:12

I'm using Mollom on my Drupal blog. I have a public forum that I hope would incite random people to send me questions or general comments, and I'd like to keep the spam off this forum.

Mollom has been working great for comments, but for some reason the forum keeps getting hit by all kinds of spam. You can see for yourself at http://infojunkie.dyndns.org/forum/52 . In the Mollom administration screen, I did check the option "Protect forum topic form".

Is there something I'm not doing right ?
TIA,
Karim

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PS. I upgraded to

PS. I upgraded to mollom-5.x-1.4.
PPS. To see the problem in action, just create a new forum topic with subject "hardcore pr0n" for example and a space in the body. Shouldn't this be caught?

Submitted by Anonymous on July 30, 2008 - 10:19.

Mollom is working fine for

Mollom is working fine for your forum, it is just that the test string you send is not considered spam by the Mollom filter (this is because we have never seen real spam that looks like what you entered). Try posting a link such as http://porn.sex.viagra.com, this will instantly fire up the filter.

Submitted by Benjamin on July 30, 2008 - 12:02.

Thanks Benjamin for your

Thanks Benjamin for your reply.

However, I ask you to check out the forum topic http://infojunkie.dyndns.org/node/396 for example. I changed its filter to "Full HTML" so you could see the body of the post. Do you think this body should qualify as real spam for Mollom? If not, then how can I convince Mollom to treat it as spam?

Submitted by kratib on August 2, 2008 - 23:26.

Another obvious example

I am getting the same spam message, which I report as such, but mollom does not block it.
Can I do something about it? How long does it take to calculate new spam reports?

I find it hard to believe that it is manually added to the site, which means either your captcha is compromised, or it is bypassed somehow (or I'm dealing with a very bored person who really does it manually :) )

This is the message I get:

We are a group of dedicated
Submitted by cyyinli (not verified) on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 07:08.

We are a group of dedicated players who have come together to provide a service for the community so that you, our fellow player,We offer wow gold and aoc gold,our website is wow gold Professional offered,please buy lotro gold in [here comes a link which I won't advertise]

Submitted by z.stolar on August 14, 2008 - 06:58.

Personal history

You should note that Mollom also uses some kind of "personal history", so if you use an IP or whatever it is Mollom uses to "identify" you (I'm a bit out of the loop... I really should get back to hacking at the Drupal module :)), Mollom will note that you have a history of making good comments, and will thus be more inclined to ask you to verify future comments. Even when you talk about hardcore pr0n (which might not be spam on, e.g., a porn (discussion) site)).

Marking it as spam will make it more likely it'll also catch future (good) comments from you as spam (or at least "unsure") though.

Submitted by Freso on October 16, 2008 - 08:30.