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[Blogging about stuff] My experiences with Defensio - Decision made: The conclusion is that i am totally convinced of Defensio doing a great job filtering spam, and therefore i will keep all the installations of the plugin i made running and let Akismet rest in peace. I just love Defensio for being that efficient, having a very well structured user-interface which helps you identifying spam and false negatives/positives plus it has got a few more excellent features, such as the statistic section on the Defensio Homepage as shown in the screenshot

 [Comments for Lorelle on wordpress] Comment on What WordPress Plugins and Features Do You Want on the ...: As Haid mentioned, WordPress is indeed working on integrating automatic upgrading into the program, but it is a huge undertaking - taking years to figure out how to do it around ALL the different server systems, setups, installations, versions, and…a lot of work, especially around security issues. The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin is great, but it also has problems and doesn’t work on every installation or server setup.

 [Watershed Studio, LLC] The Future of Spam Karma: Specifically regarding the inclusion of Akismet, I am glad that it is included for those who want to use it (its free for probably 99% of people running WordPress), but the fact that it really is a commercial product and is included in every WordPress install does invoke some sort of “that’s not right” feeling (though I do understand the business side of it).  I guess my main issue isn’t the self-promotion or the revenue potential (open source authors do deserve compensation for their work and donations are often few and far between), but more the fact that an average user would just assume that anything bundled with WordPress comes with it with no strings attached.  I think a better approach would have been to either require a manual download of the plugin with clearly defined terms or to offer some sort of standard (free) commercial version and an enhanced commercial (pay) version.

[Blogging about stuff] My first Defensio Anti Spam Experiences: After a week´s time i will make the final decision on whether i continue to use Defensio for WordPress or return to Akismet. I will also post up a few screenshots that will show you how well it worked, how exact the filter is and an overview on how many spam posts a “no name blog like this”

 [Zero to One-Eighty] Spam Karma Released Under GPL: Dave discontinues development of his anti-spam WordPress plugin and licenses the source under the GPL. I’ve been using Spam Karma, and Michael Hampton’s Bad Behavior, on this site for around two years to great effect.

 [I'm Knight] Spam Karma get GPLed: Happen to click the spam karma page today when setting up my brother blog, although is about 2 week later , spam karma 2 goes GPL. I start using spam karma 2 for antispam then after some time by some plugin help i mix it with akismet .

 [8 Ways to Sunday] Spam Karma Is Now Open Source Software: My favorite WordPress anti-spam plugin is now open source software. Dr. Dave, Spam Karma’s original author, is bowing out and releasing the code for maintenance by the WP user community. I sincerely hope the project succeeds, ...

 [Pirates! Man Your Women!] Spam Karma 2 Plugin for Automatic Deletion: Scroll down to the Treatment Plugins Settings, and set the minimum value that you’d accept as even worth checking. It defaults to -25 which is pretty unlikely to ever get a false positive in my opinion.

 [Itz all neu] 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog: As one of the leading open source blogging platforms, WordPress has inspired hundreds (if not thousands) of plugins and tools to customize your blog. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of more than 300 of our favorites.

 [Redvers Downs Weblog] Hello world!: Next, in your Admin area, choose the Plugins link and “Activate” the “Spam Karma 2”³ plugin. This will help protect your blog from spam.

[Business Dream Blog] Wordpress plug-ins That Gives maximum blog benefits: Visitors coming to your blog post through search engines usually leave the blog immediately after reading the post. The related posts plug-in helps you retain the visitor by providing him related posts and thus ensuring that the visitor has enough relevant content to stay on your blog.

[Aaron Toponce] Spam Karma Goes GPL: However, the reason for Dave making Spam Karma GPL has nothing to do with Free Software, but more to the fact that he is no longer supporting the utility, and hopes by making it GPL, the community will pick it up, and run with it. I hope so too, because while I’m a major proponent of Free Software, I won’t run outdated, unsupported software either.

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