I’ve fallen for Defensio - WordPress Comment-spam fighter!

  29 Nov 2007 by ReviewSaurus | , ,

Defensio-spam-fighter Few days back, I’d mentioned about Defensio, a spam filter solution which was welcomed by Automattic and even though they are the competition. However, I’ll say that I’ve fallen for Defensio and the reason is simple, I get better result from Defensio.

Although, the details of the stopped spam is provided by Akismet but it’s not as detailed as Defensio, so I can’t say the difference between the two but certainly I’m getting less automated emails as far as undetected spam is concerned.

On this blog, I used to get 2-3 emails everyday, which wanted me to take some step against some comment and that was when I was using Akismet but when I used Defensio, I was fairly impressed as the number of email which I received got down to 1 in 2-3 days.

What I loved about Defensio is that it lets you sort the caught messages by Spaminess and thus it becomes pretty easy to find out a false positive!

Anyway, here is the current stats of the blog :

    • Recent accuracy: 99.61%
    • 5567 spam
    • 25 legitimate comments
    • 17 false negatives (undetected spam)
    • 7 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)

Good work Defensio! What about you, are you using Defensio or are you using Akismet ? If you are using Defensio then what is your experience with it ?

6 Responses so far

  1. Aseem Kishore November 30, 2007 3:49 pm

    So you think this is better than using Askimet for Wordpress blogs?? If so, I might give it a try. Thanks

  2. Shashank November 30, 2007 4:15 pm

    presently i am using Akismet and it’s been doing a perfect job in eating out spams..you said about automated emails not comments?

  3. ReviewSaurus November 30, 2007 4:36 pm

    @ Aseem : Yes, i think its better than akismet as far my experience goes.

    @ Shashank : Akismet is good and I don’t deny its cool too but I still think that Defensio is slightly better than Akismet. Do try it out.

  4. Syahid Ali December 5, 2007 3:39 pm

    Looks interesting. Can this be run simultaneously with Akismet. 2 spam protection working at the same should be good, do you think so?

  5. Schonhose December 13, 2007 8:56 pm

    Syahid Ali: Defensio cannot work with Akismet. It is either Defensio or Akismet in this case. Akismet will have a serious influence on the results for Defensio. Defensio learns from your comments and especially in the initial learning phase it needs all comments, not only leftovers by Akismet.

  6. Mahesh K Bhat April 19, 2008 4:05 am

    Akismet Failing - Defensio Or Mollum?…

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