BANGALORE, INDIA: User contribution has become an important part of web pages with almost all websites offering you an option to post comments. At times, it's the user comments on a web page that provide more valuable information than the web page itself.

But with user interactions increasing day by day, web administrators or bloggers have to spend a lot of time moderating user comments, which often contain a lot of spam. Plus with the fast moving web, a comment cannot wait for moderation for a long time.

MolloM can help you with moderation as well as blocking spam on your website. It is basically a web service which analyzes comments, contact form messages, blogs etc posted on a website and identifies spam and blocks the same depending upon its quality.

When a user posts content on a website protected by MolloM, it is sent to mollom.com servers which analyze and reply whether that the content is ham or spam. In case MolloM is unable to determine the content quality, it will immediately present user with a CAPTCHA challenge (both image and audio supported) and if the user clears it, the content will be allowed. This not only protects the website from spam but also saves the moderator's time

How to Use?
Using MolloM is rather simple, First you need to download the plugin for the CMS you are using. Let's say you want to use MolloM with wordpress. Download MolloM wordpress plugin from http://mollom.com/download. Now you need to upload it to your wordpress to /wp-content/plugins directory or you can simply install it from your wordpress admin Plugin Install interface. Once installed, enable it from plugins menu under admin interface.

MolloM also lets you view statistics of user comments made on a portal.

Next go to MolloM website and register for an account and add your website to MolloM . After you have signed up, it will show public and private keys for your website. Now go back to your wordpress administrator interface and browse to settings>mollom and provide private and public keys you got from MolloM's website. Once the keys are validated, MolloM will automatically start working. Now whenever a comment is posted it will be automatically moderated by MolloM . In case you want to allow a blocked comment, go to MolloM Manage Module. Here you will find all comments, You can manually moderate by tagging a comment as spam, profanity, low quality, unwatned or approve a comment. When you perform manual moderation inside MolloM module, you can also choose whether a feedback should be sent to MolloM servers or not. You can also view MolloM statistics graphs from MolloM manage module.