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…
#1 by Wolfie on 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 by Richard on 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.
#3 by brightfeather on 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)