最好用的Drupal垃圾评论过滤模块Mollom将于一年后停用

今天打算为新的Drupal网站安装Mollom这个最好用的垃圾评论过滤模块，意外发现Mollom将于2018年4月2号停止维护和支持。

Mollom是一个智能的反垃圾评论过滤组件，由Drupal的创始人Dries Buytaert大神发起并维护。这个插件的智能体现在什么地方呢？ Mollom的网络通过监控所有网站的内容提交行为（不仅基于当前提交的内容，还考虑内容发布者过去的行为和名声），来决定新发布的内容是不是可能的垃圾评论。 如果认为提交的内容是垃圾评论，就会自动过滤，如果认为是正常评论，就会直接放行（还要看用户的设置，用户可以设置还要经过人工审核才能发布）。而如果不能确认是否是垃圾评论的话，就会要求评论者提交验证码以防止机器人自动评论。

让我们来看看一组有关垃圾评论的严酷数字吧：

The chart above depicts how much spam and ham (not spam) that Mollom processes on a daily basis. Mollom is one of the largest website spam filtering systems available:

• Mollom is currently protecting 39,286 active websites.
• The average efficiency is 99.99%. This means that only 1 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught.
• Mollom has caught 13,860,424,897 spam messages since it started.
• Yesterday we caught 4,415,231 spam messages.
• On average, 94% of all messages are spam.

翻译一下：

• Mollom正在保护39286运行中的网站；
• 垃圾过滤评论效率是99.99％，也就是10000条垃圾评论里只有一条漏网之鱼；
• Mollom启动以来一共检测到了13860424897条垃圾评论；
• 昨天一天，检测到4415231条垃圾评论；
• 平均来说，94％的消息是垃圾评论。

Mollom干得好好的，干嘛不干了呢，真是的。以下是Mollom声明停用的全文：

 

Mollom End-of-Life Announcement

As of 2 April 2018, Acquia will no longer support or maintain the Mollom product.

Mollom launched 8 years ago to make it easy for people to ensure the quality of content posted to their online applications. Mollom has been used widely in the Drupal community and has blocked over 13.5 billion spam comments since its inception. Mollom has helped grow many web applications, but the online comment and SPAM blocking ecosystems have evolved over the years and unfortunately, Mollom’s spam-blocking days have come to an end.

As of 2 April 2018, Acquia will no longer actively support or maintain Mollom. After that point in time, the Mollom service will no longer be available. If you still have the Mollom module enabled on your site at that point, either all comments will be approved or all comments will be denied depending on how you have the Mollom module configured . We suggest disabling the Mollom module in advance of the end-of-life date.

On 1 May 2017, Mollom will no longer be available for sale on Mollom.com. You can continue to use the service for free with Mollom Free, which offers unlimited spam blocking and up to 50 legitimate posts per day. Users with existing Developer, Professional or Enterprise subscriptions may continue to use Mollom until one monthly billing cycle before the service end-of-life. You can still manage your sites and subscriptions or cancel an existing subscription through the site manager.

As an alternative to Mollom, Acquia recommends reCAPTCHA and Honeypot. These services provide similar spam blocking functionality and assist in the curation of user submissions.

We hope that you have had a positive experience using Mollom and we look forward to making other products that will improve the quality and content of your applications in the future. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of the Mollom community and the Drupal community as a whole.

Sincerely,

The Mollom Team