Comment issues: Defensio gets the Boot, Akismet called back in
I’ve been having incresing troubles with Defensio spamming my fellow blogger’s comments and Trackbacks.
Since the last thing I want is to create a hassle for readers and delay their comments, I’ve booted Defensio out and reactivated Akismet.
If any of you are experimenting similar (or other) commenting issues let me know at chattydm@chattydm.net.
Sorry for all that.
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Does this mean I get to take part in conversations in quasi-real time again when I post from home?
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That’s what you get for questioning the almighty Akismet!
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Well, that’s what Akismet got for deciding that I, an admin on this site, was a spammer.
Twice.
In a row.
I hate Akismet with a passion.
Defensio isn’t all that much better at catching spam/notspam, but it at least tells me when it does so. (And it has had 93% accuracy since I started using it, with only one false positive [a few false negatives], which it told me about so I was able to correct it.)
So my site is staying on Defensio.
It just pisses me off so much less.
Have you tried Mollom yet? See http://mollom.com.
@John -
Looks interesting.
Contains some superfluous stuff, such as captcha. The captcha on this site (and my own) has stopped nearly 100% of in-comment spam, due to it not being widespread. The only spam that really gets through is trackback spam.
Still, it bears exploration.
EDIT:
Sigh.
Might I add, this comment was marked as spam!
Fucking Akismet.
Graham: I understand your hate for Akismet but I was at the point that I needed to check the spam file every hour to unspam a blogger’s comment. Akismet, I needed to do it once every day.
While Defensio deals with Spam in a better way, even a 99% success rate created a reduced enjoyment of the blog by people like Michael Philips, ScottM and, lately, Dave the Game.
However, it just seems that Akismet targets a different crowd to the same effect… Let’s try to find something else then…
Since it’s Saturday morning I’ll try something:
I’ll turn off Akismet and see if Simple Trackback Validation (STBV) can handle all the Trackback Spam.
If it works I’ll stretch the trial until Tuesday…