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 :
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- 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 ?
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So you think this is better than using Askimet for WordPress blogs?? If so, I might give it a try. Thanks
presently i am using Akismet and it’s been doing a perfect job in eating out spams..you said about automated emails not comments?
@ 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.
Looks interesting. Can this be run simultaneously with Akismet. 2 spam protection working at the same should be good, do you think so?
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.
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Yes, i think its better than akismet as far my experience goes
"Can this be run simultaneously with Akismet"
thanks
well i m also having the same query will akismet work simultaneusly with WordPress Comment-spam fighter!
I'm used to akismet on my website. Is this less complicated than Akismet?
There is no spam comments in my site.But I received a lot of spam letters in my email.Maybe I leave my email in mysite.sometimes if I want to enter a website.and i leave my email too.
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Tanck
Looks interesting! Thanks for sharing an info!
Yes, i think its better than akismet as far my experience goes
askismet is the best WP plugin
For security issues, Askismet is a necessary plugin for WP.
Why is that? Can you be more specific or show some source I could learn from, Thanks
I’m going to try this. :) Thanks.
thank
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Tanck
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