Hey, thank you for this excellent module. But I have a problem. I cannot allow anonymous users to publish their comments. I have to moderate manually.

Everyday I get 300 comments in moderation queue that are absolutely ... worthless... on the rare occasion when a comment is actually a valid non-spam comment, I might accidentally delete it.

I've tried Akismet, I'm using Typepad now... But still, these spammers are bypassing it easily. I get a reported "7 spams per day" but it's actually 300+!!! Both these external services are absolutely horrible.

I was wondering, if you could make some sort of learning feature? Track the User Agents of these bots, and if I click "Submit as spam" in moderation queue, next time, that bot will be filtered out as spam.

I mean does clicking "Submit as spam" do ANYTHING? Does that report these comments to external services like typepad? Am I helping typepad become smarter? Are the spammers on my site finding it more difficult (cuz it doesn't seem like it).

Perhaps some more clever tricks can be used, similar to captcha, but without a real user having to do work.

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Everett Zufelt commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This module is an interface between Drupal and external APIs. Regardless of the perceived efficacy of those services, a cloud sourced approach will almost always be more effective than a single instance.