Bye Bye Akismet - Bye Bye Wordpress.com

Following lots of upset, all centred around wordpress.com I moved the blogs that I want to keep away from wordpress.com.

The only thing that’s kept my account over there active is the Akismet anti-spam plugin that requires the wordpress.com API key to work.

Well, thanks to Adam over at archGFX I have now deactivated and removed the Akismet plugin.

Shock horror! What the hell am I doing? Running without a spam filter? Don’t be bloody stupid!

Adam recommended Defensio. Actually, he said “seriously, Defensio FTW.”

So I did. And now I can backup the post data from cornell.wordpress.com and then delete the account.

By the way, I did vote in the Crunchies as mentioned in my last post. I voted for Feedburner (RSS) and Slide.com (online slideshows). I’ve used both and they rock.

Also made me laugh that the Crunchies website is running MediaTemple…

4 Responses to “Bye Bye Akismet - Bye Bye Wordpress.com”

  1. Wolfie - January 9th, 2008

    Thanks for the heads up on Defensio; I dumped Akisment a few days ago and was wondering what to replace it with.

    I did have to chuckle, though, when their account activation email got caught in Google’s spam filter!

  2. The New Wolfs Howl » Blog Archive » Brief notes - January 9th, 2008

    [...] is creating a lot of false positives). On a .org blog you have a choice and thanks to a tip from Cornell Finch, I’d say drop Akismet and go for Defensio. I”ve only installed it today, but all the [...]

  3. Richard - January 10th, 2008

    Cornell,

    I think you will be happy with Defensio. Although I’ve only had it installed for a few days it has been working flawlessly for me.

  4. brightfeather - January 21st, 2008

    Defensio is working very well on my blog.

    * Recent accuracy: 96.48%
    * 163 spam
    * 100 legitimate comments
    * 6 false negatives (undetected spam)
    * 7 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)

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