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By: reseller hosting

reseller hosting — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:03:25 +0000

Interesting product. I run a pretty popular blog and for now use akismet which works nicely. There are insidents though when spam does come in but it is rare. This spam protection product seems to be useful addtion, I will try to add to my blog as well.

By: Flingcom

Flingcom — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:12:46 +0000

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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:03:21 +0000

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By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:25:00 +0000

Tri: I definitely am more of a target firstly just because I have dofollow enabled and because of that, I really need a top notch spam filter and sadly, Akismet does not cut it, especially if you run a blog that is even semi-successful. As I’ve said before, the more popular a website gets, the more spam it attracts because it starts popping up all over search engines and other websites. The key to any happy blog is a spam filter that can actually do its job, which Defensio does amazingly, so in the end it doesn’t matter what plugins you have enabled that attract more spam because you know you have something that will catch what you don’t want.

By: Cheap Binoculars

Cheap Binoculars — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:36:30 +0000

I am new to wordpress but I use askimet and it seems to work pretty good. Defensio looks promising and I might give it a try soon.

By: Seo Services

Seo Services — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:05:32 +0000

Hi Supreme Solutions,
You have mentioned that one could post a max of 400 posts a day per URL. Is it really?
But, I think that he might not checked do follow link. Otherwise, he couldn’t post 400 comments per day.

By: Forex Profiting

Forex Profiting — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:53:03 +0000

Defensio sounds useful but I am wary of these email-spam-stoppers. More often than not they make mistakes and mark genuine emails as spam and can cause you to miss important emails.

By: Andk

Andk — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:59:12 +0000

Well, one major way to reduce spam is simply to turn off allow follow... since that is what a lot of marketers are attracted to when they go out to annoyingly promote their products. Andk's last blog post..Eight Tips for Negotiating an Office Lease Renewal

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:01:11 +0000

Andk: if only it was that easy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work…

By: Motivational Posters

Motivational Posters — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:25:49 +0000

I have been a beta tester for Defensio. When there is a lot of spam, Defensio is extremely powerful (much powerful than Akismet). I applied for Defensio when the number of spam comments on my blog shot up suddenly. But it decreased with the same speed it rose and now there in no more spam trouble. But now Defensio is catching some of legit comments too (my blog is not a heavily commented blog). Overall, I am much more satisfied with Defensio than Akismet.

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:35:51 +0000

Sebastien: In my opinion, how good a spam filter is should not be measured by the number of spam it lets through, but rather by a combination of false positives and false negatives. How many good comments is your current spam filter eating?

If you’re like I was before, you probably don’t know and don’t even bother looking. It’s too much of a chore. Defensio gives you an easy to navigate quarantine which makes it a breeze to find false positives.

When I switched to Defensio, I realized that I was missing a lot of good comments. They were buried in pages and pages of spam (ie: needle in a haystack). Now, the very rare FP just bubbles up to the top, making it extremely easy to identify.

Needless to say, we’d be thrilled if you gave us a shot

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:31:26 +0000

I’ve been using Akismet and honestly, that’s all I need. I probably get 1 or 2 spam unfilteres spam comments a month. I guess I don’t have the same amount of traffic as you get though.

By: Supreme Solutions

Supreme Solutions — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:03:53 +0000

Still using Askimet, I think the problem is their is a market for this type of spam. I was trolling on one forum and there was a guy chraging $ .25 a comment on relevant blogs, and he said that he could post a max of 400 posts a day per URL.

By: NSpeaks

NSpeaks — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:25:48 +0000

I am using Defensio since December 2007 and see my post why I didn’t like Defensio at all: http://nspeaks.com/205/defensio-is-tiring-me/

By: Ami

Ami — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:51:03 +0000

Spam is such a problem and you are right, getting rid of spam can very quickly eat up your time

Problem is some comments do add value to our blogs and in the world of web 2.0 interactive is the name of the game

Never heard of defensio but will definitely look it up

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:49:25 +0000

That was awesome to read! I’m running Akismet and I have had so many emails from people telling me my blog is eating their comments. The first few times I thought they were full of crap, but I finally checked Akismet — didn’t really cross my mind before — and there were a boatload.

I’m going to look into that immediately. Thanks for letting us know!

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:32:32 +0000

I am still using Askimet to tackle spam. So far so good… guess I have to wait for my blog to get bigger for me to really start worrying about spam.

By: Guy M'Naghten

Guy M'Naghten — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:31:34 +0000

I’m going to have to try this out. It seems that I can’t get it perfect with Askimet. Either its letting too many spam comments in or its keeping too many real comments out. I tend to err on the side of inclusion because I really think comments are the backbone of blogging. But like you pointed out a lot of the spam keywords are pretty graphic or intimate, so I can’t really leave them up. Suffice it to say hand deleting comments is becoming too tiring for me.

By: Teresa Morrow

Teresa Morrow — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:39:04 +0000

Holly,

I appreciate your post. I am currently using Akismet but have had issues in the past with it. So it is nice to have another alternative that will work in a different (and most likely) better way than Akismet.
Thank you for your thorough analysis of the program.

I love to blog however, trying to control the spam can deter my enthusiasm sometimes.

By: Sheena

Sheena — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:08:24 +0000

Defensio is my pimp! Akismet used to eat up my REAL comments so I had to stop using it. I get so many spam comments in my quarantine but at least they aren’t out in the open annoying the public!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:28:56 +0000

I don’t use it. I like my Akismet which works just as well.

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:08:55 +0000

Holly, that was an -awesome- review! You really understand what we do, how Defensio works and why it’s better.

Your post should keep the team motivated for a few weeks! Thanks!