Comments on: Spam Blocking Technologies – A Quick Glance

By: Sussex Wedding Photography

Sussex Wedding Photography — Sun, 01 May 2011 09:47:50 +0000

I just started my website in WordPress and I believe applying spam blocking technologies is a must. I have friends that recommend me Akismet others AntispamBee. Wich is better?

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:54:51 +0000

AFAIK they are WP only

By: web design

web design — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:42:09 +0000

i wanna ask can one use akismet and invisible defender on blogger or is it dedicated only for wordpress.?

By: Pritush

Pritush — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:06:00 +0000

I have also faced spam problem , sometime upto 20 a day.
I install “wpspam free” but it did some false positive for some genuine comments, later i installed a comment system called disqus spam is 0, u may also try this.

By: Sergej Müller

Sergej Müller — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:49:55 +0000

See also the AntispamBee plugin for WordPress: http://antispambee.com

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:30:42 +0000

Alan, Akismet is a spam filter, while Invisible Defender is a spam blocker. They complement each other. Akismet puts comments it considers spam into the spam queue, it doesn’t block them. Yes, I do use them both.

Whether you need a spam blocker or not depends on how you deal with potential false positives. If you are not willing to sacrifice them and just blindly purge your spam queue, you’d have to go through it and check every comment. This option starts to suck when your spam queue is several pages long.

A spam blocker will block (most of the) incoming spam from ever being put into the spam queue, but it will never block real comments. False negatives will still pass through to your queue, but it will be just a couple of them, and checking those is a lot easier.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:38:04 +0000

So Akismet wasn’t cutting it for you anymore? My site gets maybe ten spams per day, and I’ve only ever had one or two false positives. Also, does Invisible Defender work in conjunction with Akismet or have you deactivated Akismet?

Alan