Control Junk Comments on Your Website

User contribution has become an important part of web pages with almost all
websites offering you an option to post comments. At times, it's the user
comments on a web page that provide more valuable information than the web page
itself. But with user interactions increasing day by day, web administrators or
bloggers have to spend a lot of time moderating user comments, which often
contain a lot of spam. Plus with the fast moving web, a comment cannot wait for
moderation for a long time. MolloM can help you with moderation as well as
blocking spam on your website. It is basically a web service which analyzes
comments, contact form messages, blogs etc posted on a website and identifies
spam and blocks the same depending upon its quality.

When a user posts content on a website protected by MolloM, it is sent to
mollom.com servers which analyze and reply whether that the content is ham or
spam. In case MolloM is unable to determine the content quality, it will
immediately present user with a CAPTCHA challenge (both image and audio
supported) and if the user clears it, the content will be allowed. This not only
protects the website from spam but also saves the moderator's time

MolloM plugin is available for CMS like Drupal, Joomla, wordpress, Radiant
and SilverStripe. It is available in two versions -free and MolloM Plus. In
MolloM free, you can process 100 legitimate posts per day where as in MolloM
Plus, you can process up to 10,000 per day. MolloM plus is a subscription based
service and you would need to shell out 30 EUR per month per site and it also
includes a high-availability service. MolloM plus is recommended if your site
gets huge amounts of posts daily.

How to Use?

Using MolloM is rather simple, First you need to download the plugin for the CMS
you are using. Let's say you want to use MolloM with wordpress. Download MolloM
wordpress plugin from http://mollom.com/download. Now you need to upload it to
your wordpress to /wp-content/plugins directory or you can simply install it
from your wordpress admin Plugin Install interface. Once installed, enable it
from plugins menu under admin interface.

MolloM also lets you view statistics of user comments made on a portal.

Next go to MolloM website and register for an account and add your website to
MolloM . After you have signed up, it will show public and private keys for your
website. Now go back to your wordpress administrator interface and browse to
settings>mollom and provide private and public keys you got from MolloM's
website. Once the keys are validated, MolloM will automatically start working.
Now whenever a comment is posted it will be automatically moderated by MolloM .
In case you want to allow a blocked comment, go to MolloM Manage Module. Here
you will find all comments, You can manually moderate by tagging a comment as
spam, profanity, low quality, unwatned or approve a comment. When you perform
manual moderation inside MolloM module, you can also choose whether a feedback
should be sent to MolloM servers or not. You can also view MolloM statistics
graphs from MolloM manage module.