How does Mollom work on node submissions? I'd wager hardly at all but perhaps somebody has real metrics. We are getting constantly crystal clear spam with shitty-urls plainly included (like: https://www.drupal.org/node/2513174) but on comments Mollom harrasses a valid commenter who posted this: https://www.drupal.org/node/2511162#comment-10059752. Jaypan alone submits approx half-a dozen spam nodes like the one linked above. I do report them all but this doesn't seem to work. Or is this just the tip of the ice berg I am seeing?

Additionally it would be VERY helpful if Mollom would unpublish comments containing links to drupal.org pages. It is not a good sight to notice answers linking to docs or projects pages getting unpublished.

edit: Looking at the unpublished nodes now and it seems Mollom does catch some garbage nodes. But I fail to see why https://www.drupal.org/node/2512686 is blocked when similar posts aren't.

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Additionally it would be VERY helpful if Mollom would unpublish comments containing links to drupal.org pages. It is not a good sight to notice answers linking to docs or projects pages getting unpublished.

Linking to drupal.org pages from drupal.org is also legitimate, for example when linking a documentation page from another documentation page. Since Mollom is a module not thought just for drupal.org and Mollom as service is available for other platforms too, I think improbable such change will be added.

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I was under the impression we are running some modified code. Not sure though.

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We are not running any modified code for Mollom. And we only run Mollom on 3 things at the moment: user registration form, forum topic creation and forum comment creation. It does not check issues, documentation pages or any other content type or comments on any other content type.

I do not watch Mollom as closely as I did right after deployment, but while it does have false positives, it generally catches a lot more spam. Note that if you look at unpublished nodes list - you will only see the nodes Mollom was unsure about and thus accepted, but unpublished. There are many more attempts to publish pure spam which were blocked and never made it into the node on the site. Those can be seen in the watchdog logs (filter for Mollom messages for convenience).

As for why some false positives happen and why comments with links to D.o pages are unpublished - I don't think I can answer that. And I don't think there is any setting to 'whitelist' internal links unfortunately.

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Parent issue: » #2408359: Configure Mollom on Drupal.org
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Thanks for the info, tvn.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I am going to close this one as we addressed the biggest part of feedback here - whitelisting valid urls like Drupal.org for Mollom to prevent false positives.