The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.When I first installed this module, that option appeared, but now it only offers text analysis. But the project page still says:
A stand-alone CAPTCHA solution, which neither considers user behavior nor point of origin, can never achieve this level of informed protection, and generally requires users to solve a CAPTCHA on every post. Using Mollom's text analysis, users must only solve CAPTCHAs when Mollom is unsure about a post.
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davegan commentedComment #2
dave reidThat probably means you're trying to add protection on a form that doesn't have any fields declared in its hook_mollom_form_info(), so you can't use textual analysis on it (as there would be no fields to submit).
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davegan commentedwell, I'm trying to add it to the comment form. Is that form no longer supported with captcha backup?
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sunWe merely removed the with CAPTCHA backup suffix from the form option label; it still works identically.
Very soon, the fallback to a CAPTCHA will even be configurable; we're currently trying to figure out a proper UI for that over in #1020072: Rethink/simplify UI to protect/configure a form
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davegan commentedI'm not seeing that. It does not give the user an option of a captcha, but instead takes them back to the node page and displays this message:
The captcha form does work when captcha only option is chosen, ie on my user registration / password recovery forms.
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davegan commentedComment #7
shiroitatsu commentedI have exactly same problem as davegan.
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sun@davegan: Is it possible that you configured the form to retain posts that would normally be blocked? (instead of automatically discarding them)
It might help if you'd post a screenshot of the comment form protection configuration.
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sun@davegan: Reading your comment again, it sounds like you enabled the "retain spam" option. In that case, all posts that are considered to be spam are automatically unpublished instead of being blocked. Only posts that Mollom is unsure about see a CAPTCHA, and if that is solved correctly, the post is considered as ham. If the CAPTCHA isn't solved correctly, the post is not accepted in the first place.