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Drupal and Spam 2.0 Presentation

Submitted by tao on Thu, 2009-09-24 15:37

I just gave a presentation at this month's Berkeley Drupal Users Group on Drupal and the plague that is Blog Spam (http://groups.drupal.org/node/26730). My slides are embedded below:
#1Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-09-24 22:32.

Thanks for posting your slides

Sorry I couldn't make the presentation. Sounds like ReCaptcha is the best defense at this point...
#2Submitted by Wim Mostrey (not verified) on Fri, 2009-09-25 00:30.

Mollom

Please note that it's Mollom, not Mollum. I think one of the greatest additions about Mollom is that it's constantly being improved. You mention server issues and a generic "not working too well" as critique and luckily there's an update and planned improvements. Compared to Captcha for instance, this is a huge plus.

I don't see a "conclusion" slide in your presentation. Do you have a preferred spam protection module or method? I see you're using CAPTCHA on this site but from your presentation that didn't seem like the best option.
#3Submitted by tao on Mon, 2009-09-28 16:16.

Thanks. I have updated the

Thanks. I have updated the Mollom slide.
Yeah, I don't really have a conclusion yet. I haven't really been satisfied with anything I have tried yet. I would like more flexible workflow and reporting options. And better ways to test. If I had some free cycles, I think it would be fun to help out with the Spam module, but it has been driving me crazy lately with false positives.
I will be replacing the current image captcha with reCaptcha when I get a chance.
#4Submitted by Mark (not verified) on Fri, 2009-09-25 09:57.

Thanks, Tao!

Thanks for putting up the slides, and shedding light on this important topic.
#5Submitted by Albin (not verified) on Fri, 2009-09-25 14:47.

Thanks for posting

Hi Tao

Thank you for yesterdays presentation and for posting the slides of Spam 2.0

Albin
#6Submitted by textnik (not verified) on Wed, 2009-10-21 04:01.

I am using mollum instead of

I am using mollum instead of recaptcha (although the good deeds bit does motivate). Hope this comment doesn't get flagged as spam like my previous one ;)

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