Comments on: Wp-Spamfree – Banish Comment Spam

By: Corporate photographer in London

Corporate photographer in London — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:38:42 +0000

Interesting, i’ve tryed using seval anti-spam plug in’s but yet to find one that actually is worth its worth.
Would also be interested to see if it works o.k with comment luv
Mark.

By: p90x

p90x — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:43:03 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. Was Askimet not enough? Akismet does seem to miss some of the spam on my blogs but a lot of them are deleted. Do you run both Akismet and Wp-Spamfree? Thanks for the advice.

- Robert

By: Raji22

Raji22 — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:19:01 +0000

So, how does Wp-Spamfree work? In the plugin developer

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:27:25 +0000

Wp-spam free looks pretty promising! And of course, every blog should at least have Akismet!

By: Corporate Photographer

Corporate Photographer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:25:20 +0000

I am looking to change my anti spam plugin but need to ask if Wp-Spamfree has any conflict with CommentLuv or KeywordLuv. Will it conflict with the dofollow? Grant

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:54:52 +0000

I think Akismet is really good in filtering out spam comments. So far I am quite happy with this plugin but lately quite a number of spam comments have slipped through. I think I will need to check out WP spamfree. Hope it works well!

By: Computer Tips Tricks

Computer Tips Tricks — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:08:04 +0000

Akismet has been doing fine for me but sometimes you know it might not be that accurate though and still spams come in. It’s good to have alternatives but I wonder if they run together with Akismet. Will try it out.

By: used tires

used tires — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:39:38 +0000

You know… Akismet has been the same forever… they should really take a look at some of these plugins and think about implementing some of these features for us users to be able to take advantage of!

Till then,

Jean

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:24:10 +0000

I have been using Akismet from first day and in between I switched to some alternative spam commenting measure.
I installed captcha and comment on my blog lowered down by almost 50%. I installed another spam prevention plugin and many comments landed into spam and many spam comment appeared in moderation queue…

My View: Akismet is good, though you need to check spam folder once in a while.. Also when people are using keywords while commenting @place of name, chances are high it will land into Spam folder.
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By: Ovais Mirza

Ovais Mirza — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:03:21 +0000

Wp-Spamfree is actually a great plugin for anti spamming……one of my friend told me about that..he is using it for almost six months and very much satisfied..

By: Dries

Dries — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:03 +0000

Tried Mollom yet to block spam? See http://mollom.com. A WordPress plugin was made available recently at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mollom.

By: ameo

ameo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:10:32 +0000

@ Carl Mercier :
okay , let me first mention that I’m completely objective third party outsider with completely no personal interest in the matter .

we are talking about the spam stats on defensio user CP not the accuracy measures , offcourse if the spam filters is catching all comments as spam will increase the stats level and won’t be such a good sign .
i think askimet also has stats

http://akismet.com/stats/

and it doesn’t require registering or signing in to askimet to show it although it’s not as personal as defensio stats BUT it does the same job and it show how askimet did today globally

why doesn’t defensio do that ? or simply integrate it into wordpress dashboard .. there is no need to separt the stats from comments moderation !

after i took another look at my defensio installation i did found it pretty cool to sort the spam in the quarantine
but still the basic spam protection , defensio has it to five classes i think 50 , 60 . .. , 100% is a bit OVER .
if i got it the right way .. 80% spam threshold will hide a comment with 2 links and some keywords in it and 50 % won’t !? then what is the need of these variation , why don’t defensio just set it’s measures to optimal values that suites every one , and disable this feature
no one loves spam and if some one did then he won’t be even thinking about having any antispam protection

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:47:59 +0000

I think you’re completely missing the point. The number of spam an anti-spam service catches doesn’t mean it’s doing a good job. What if it catches every legitimate comment as spam? It’s obviously doing a very poor job even though the spam count might be high. Only an accuracy statistics will tell you how good we’re doing.

By: ameo

ameo — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:43:50 +0000

@ Carl Mercier :
i agree with all you’ve said other than the stats part . coz it still show no need for users , each day blogger will notice the good work of defensio just through the counter in wordpress dashboard or any other CMS that supports defensio .

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:23:03 +0000

Ameo,

Thanks for your answer.

Statistics is our way of being transparent and telling you exactly how well/bad we’re doing. As far as I know, we’re the only service that publishes these. Maybe you don’t find them interesting or useful, but it’s actually one of the biggest selling point for us and most people love this feature. And we’re not scared of telling the world how good/bad we are, because we believe in our algorithm!

Saying that spam is black or white couldn’t be farther from the truth in my opinion, and that’s why we perform so much better than the competition: we make that subtle distinction.

For example, on my blog, I’m very strict about who I let comment. If a guy named “Download Free Music” comments, even if it’s relevant to my post, I’ll flag it as spam because he’s obviously just trying to crank up his Google juice. However, I know many people who want to have the same comment featured on their blog if the content is relevant, regardless of what the commenter is trying to accomplish.

Defensio learns from those behaviors of yours and will automagically adjust accordingly. The spaminess ranking is our way of saying what our level of confidence is regarding a given comment. It allows you to sort spam in a much smarter manner, making comment management a breeze. No more going through hundreds of pages of spam to find false positives: if there’s any, they’ll just bubble up to the top! That said, we understand that 85% spaminess doesn’t mean anything to mere mortals, so that’s why we “bucketize” everything as “not very spammy, very spammy, extremely spammy”, etc to make it easier to understand for you. Machines prefer to sort on numbers, though, so that’s why we return a % value through our API.

The “hide obvious spam” setting doesn’t affect accuracy, it’s just a way to clean up your screen a little bit. Maybe we could be clearer about what it does…

This discussion is interesting, cheers!