Mollom, Dries Buytaert adlı şu anda okuduğunuz web sitesinin arabirimi olan Drupal‘ın yaratıcısı tarafından oluşturulmuş yeni bir web servisidir.

Bu servisin amacı, daha önceden örneklerini gördüğümüz Akismet gibi, reklam(spam) içerikleri engellemek. Fakat kendisini bu tip servislerden ayıran en büyük özelliği; asıl amacının kaliteli içerik yaratmak olması. “Kaliteli içerik” tanımını ise şu şekilde özetleyebiliriz;

Müstehcen, konu ile ilgisiz, saldırgan, saygısız olmayan içerik

Sitelerinin ana sayfasında gösterilen istatistiklere bakıldığında;

Mollom şu yazı girildiği anda 207 adet web sitesini %99.94 verimlilikle reklamdan koruyor. Toplamda 406,801, bugün ise 16,227 reklam mesajı yakalanmış. Ortalama olarak mesajların %70‘i reklam mesajı imiş.

(bu bölge çevirilecek)

Ayrıcalıkları

1. Get rid of spam – Mollom helps you keep your site clean and on topic by automatically blocking comment form spam, contact form spam and fake user accounts. We use a novel filtering technique based on the combination of content analysis and CAPTCHA challenges.
2. Strength in numbers – Mollom learns from all participating sites. If an unwanted message finds its way through your website, you can report it. This allows Mollom to learn from its mistakes, making our spam filters constantly better.
3. Higher quality websites – Mollom can automatically evaluate the quality of your content to help you identify profanity, low-quality or generally unwanted material.
4. Moderation made easier – Mollom can drastically reduce the effort required to moderate your site’s content by separating the wheat from the chaff. This allows you to focus on building your website or providing content, instead of having to deal with garbage and abuse.
5. Human content only, please! – Spambots are everywhere and many of their actions, such as automatic account or comment creation, can’t be detected by text analysis techniques. Mollom’s one-two punch backs up content analysis with a CAPTCHA challenge service.
6. More secure – Mollom clients use both a public and a private key to authenticate with the Mollom servers. This is more secure than a single access key and helps defend your account’s internal reputation.
7. Increase website traffic and user participation – A high-quality website will typically attract more visitors and more spirited user participation. By using Mollom, your site can grow faster while keeping your moderation tasks manageable.
8. Accessibility – In the rare instance that Mollom decides to challenge a contribution, we provide both image and audio CAPTCHAs to maintain site accessibility for the visually impaired.
9. Improve your search engine ranking – Higher quality sites that stay on topic receive higher search engine rankings.
10. Increase advertising revenue – Advertisers prefer to advertise on websites with high quality content and better search engine rankings. Mollom can help you keep your site clean.
11. It is free! – Now and in the future, the basic Mollom service will be free. We want as many people to benefit from Mollom as we can support, so we intend to make sure that the features and volume available in the free version of Mollom go well beyond meeting the needs of the average site owner. You may never have to pay for our service!

Özellikleri

1. Next generation spam filtering technology … Ham or spam? – When new content is analyzed by Mollom’s intelligent text-analysis filter, and Mollom is unsure whether it is ham or spam, it asks the user to answer a CAPTCHA challenge. This challenge-response procedure will never block human users, and it allows us to set very tight spam filters and prevent almost all spam from getting through. If an unwanted message still makes it onto your website, you can help fight back by reporting it to us. Mollom learns from its mistakes, and you help make our spam filters even better.
2. Eliminate spam moderation queues – By using a combination of advanced content analysis techniques and CAPTCHA challenges, we are able to make sure more spam is captured without preventing legitimate users from posting on your site. This all but eliminates your moderation queue.
3. Accessible and secure CAPTCHAs – Mollom provides both image and audio CAPTCHA challenges, allowing the visually impaired to participate on your site. We serve our CAPTCHAs from a centralized server and constantly monitor CAPTCHA quality. If hackers solve them, we respond by immediately changing them.
4. Content quality assessment (BETA) – Mollom provides a quality score, based on automated content-analysis techniques, for each post sent to us for analysis. This makes it possible to ignore or reject low-quality or offensive comments, based on quality metrics that you control.
5. Extensive statistics – Mollom plays with an open hand. We show real-time statistics on our front page and maintain an individual statistics page for each site protected by Mollom.
6. Open API – Mollom is built on an open API, meaning that anyone may incorporate Mollom into their web applications. We provide open-source modules for several content-management systems, but you are free to adapt it for your own needs.
7. High-availability built in – The Mollom API uses client-side load balancing, making it reliable and practically infinitely scalable. Should one Mollom server fail or become overloaded, another Mollom server will automatically take over.
8. OpenID – Mollom fully supports OpenID, a decentralized, single sign-on system, which allows users to log in to different websites using only one set of credentials. Internally, Mollom builds a reputation for each of our users’ OpenIDs, allowing the inheritance of user reputations across sites in the future.
9. Dedicated Mollom servers – We offer dedicated Mollom servers for enterprise users. These are virtual servers running dedicated, unlimited, full-featured instances of Mollom. You can rest assured that your server will never be hit by a DDoS attack, since it accepts connections only from your web server.
10. Secure authentication – Mollom uses a secure authentication scheme using a keyed-hash message authentication code instead of just a single access key. This protects your key. Hackers cannot hijack your account or impersonate you.