Lyceum is still requiring each blog to get its own Akismet key, rather than having a single key protect the whole system (as is the case with Movable Type). Clearly this approach doesn't scale, and requires a great deal of manual effort on the part of sysadmins or users.
What are the current best options for system-wide Lyceum spam control that can be configured centrally by the admin, not individually by the users?
This is surely worth a wiki page, but would appreciate any tips here.
ShadyCraig - Can you confirm that SpamKarma can definitely be installed in Lyceum for system-wide protection, and doesn't need to be configured for each individual blog?
There is an options page on each blog but I didn't mess with the settings. I don't know how it would behave... same settings for all or per blog? Don't know I'm afraid.
I suppose you would need to disable the options page somehow if you didn't want user to edit the settings.
I just tried SpamKarma2. I get a large number of SQL errors, so 'd have to say it doesn't work with Lyceum. Additionally, it appears as if blog owners can view and moderate comments from all other blog -- probably not what we want.