Yeah, I am sick and tired of using Defensio Anti-spam Plugin on my blog. Launched with great hype, Defensio promised to be a good alternative to Akismet. It also included most desirable feature not found in Akismet(even now) – Collapsable Comments. It was awesome feature and I always wondered, why Akismet does not come up with this.
But important things is keeping spam under control and not let genuine comments pass as spam and vice-versa. But Defensio is doing exactly that. If I found a genuine comment on 3rd page of comments with 80% spamminess ranking, then seriously Defensio needs serious thinking. Comment was genuine to the extent that it belonged to my friend. Gosh!
Here is a screenie to show that Defensio’s performance is going down day by day.
There you go, I had to go through 9000 comments to look for my 149 genuine comments – Imagine how much I am tired. I am taking rest now and switching to Akismet.
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@sms laenud: It would be risky and highly not recommended.
Can’t you use both? First run the spam through Akismet then through Defensio? Or the other way around?
Akismet is always a good bet. I don’t know about Defensio since I never used this kind of service, thanks for letting me know what Defensio is. But if you switched your service from Akismet to Defensio earlier, it means you were not happy with Akismet, didn’t you?
Uh uh, akismet still the one. it’s old school. But you know some say, how to do it right? it’s always the old school way.
Awesome catch buddy! Send my regard to emma
eXtraNeT » I would recommend Akismet over Defensio.
Although I’m sure I don’t get the comment volume you do, I have always been happy with Akismet. Why fix what’s not broken? When I have problems with Akismet, then I will go looking for a replacement.
m@ » Well said. Well the comment volume only shows this much when I have defensio…for past few days only 3 or 4 comments now showed up in Akismet queue.