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When theming a website that uses Mollom as an anti-spam tool, you need to give some extra attention to theming the captcha-form, so it shows up gracefully.

In order to show the captcha-form, Mollom needs to think your post is spam.
"So I need to post spam to my own site ? Is that the only way to get these captcha's showing up on my site ?"

No. Posting spam, even when on your own site, it a bad idea: it ruins your reputation. For sure IRL, but soon it might also affect your reputation in the Mollom universe too. As soon as Mollom starts to actively implement some kind of openid-based scoring board, it might affect your user-score and mark your openid as a potential spammer.

The solution: put your site in 'developer mode' in Molloms site manager via edit subscription - edit site details.
Now you can force Mollom to tag you posts as 'spam', 'ham' or 'unsure' just by adding these words to the body of the post.

Easy!
And it will not affect your reputation in Mollom...

[Edit: there is a handbook page about this too: http://drupal.org/node/350424]

Notes:
1) Remember to turn of the developer mode after development, otherwise Mollom will not function properly.

2) This is the code added by Mollom when showing the captcha

<div class="form-item" id="edit-captcha-wrapper">
 <label for="edit-captcha">Word verification: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label>
 <span class="field-prefix"><div id="captcha"><a href="http://mollom.com"><img src="http://xmlrpc1.mollom.com:80/cfbabc9876543219.png" alt="Mollom CAPTCHA" /></a> (<a href="#" id="audio-captcha">play audio CAPTCHA</a>)</div></span> <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="captcha" id="edit-captcha" size="10" value="" class="form-text required" />
 <div class="description">Type the characters you see in the picture above; if you can't read them, submit the form and a new image will be generated.</div>
</div>

3) This is how the Edit Subscription page looks like. You set 'developer mode' at the bottom of this page.