I have a small personal blog. It's nothing big, usually averaging between 17,000 to 25,000 hits a month. However, it's become a HUGE spam target because of a few articles I've posted that have decent page rankings on Google. Since it's inception, I've been using Akismet with satisfactory results. In about a year's time, it had stopped over 60,000 spam comments and trackbacks. However, recently, I've been getting more and more spam slipping through Akismet and I was getting tired of having to manually identify comments as spam.
About a month ago, I remembered seeing an alternative anti-spam plugin, Defensio, getting attention on my Wordpress Dashboard from a few of the developer blogs. I decided to give it a shot a few days ago and, so far, nothing has slipped by, at all.
Defensio is also more configurable, allowing you to take more control over how strict it is. Each comment is given a "Spaminess" rating. Using this system, you can set a cut off point. By default, any comment with a "spaminess" of 80% or higher will be marked as spam and put into quarantine. You can adjust this default percentage, though, so far, I've seen no need to deviate from the 80% default.
I just wanted to give you guys and girls a heads up. If you use Wordpress, give Defensio a try. I've been very pleased with it, so far.
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I have a small personal blog. It's nothing big, usually averaging between 17,000 to 25,000 hits a month. However, it's become a HUGE spam target because of a few articles I've posted that have decent page rankings on Google. Since it's inception, I've been using Akismet with satisfactory results. In about a year's time, it had stopped over 60,000 spam comments and trackbacks. However, recently, I've been getting more and more spam slipping through Akismet and I was getting tired of having to manually identify comments as spam.
About a month ago, I remembered seeing an alternative anti-spam plugin, Defensio, getting attention on my Wordpress Dashboard from a few of the developer blogs. I decided to give it a shot a few days ago and, so far, nothing has slipped by, at all.
Defensio is also more configurable, allowing you to take more control over how strict it is. Each comment is given a "Spaminess" rating. Using this system, you can set a cut off point. By default, any comment with a "spaminess" of 80% or higher will be marked as spam and put into quarantine. You can adjust this default percentage, though, so far, I've seen no need to deviate from the 80% default.
I just wanted to give you guys and girls a heads up. If you use Wordpress, give Defensio a try. I've been very pleased with it, so far.
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