Comment restrictions
As with any online system that allows users to post textual comments, there will be abuse such as spam; see also: Spam in blogs
- Flood control
- registration date ≤ 7 days from current date
- to reduce massive spam attacks a post limit has been implemented. New registrations to the forum will have a 10 minute waiting period between postings (create new topic or reply to existing topic) on the Forum or Blog. This restriction is for all registrations that are up to one week old.
- CAPTCHA
- Mollom
- A CAPTCHA has been introduced to control Scorecard comment spam. On every 21st scorecard comment, you are presented a CAPTCHA to fill in to post your comment. This has been implemented to ensure humans are commenting on website scorecards.
- Scorecard comment voting
- When a site's reputation has become controversial meaning there's a disagreement between high and low ratings, the ability to agree or disagree with existing comments is deactivated. This is an automatic response from WOT and is not an action taken by WOT Staff.
- Scorecard comment editing
- Only positive comment votes are removed from the comment, negative comment votes remain when a comment is edited, including changing the comment category. Now the comment owner can't "game" (abuse) with the votes so easily. source: Timo
