Comments on: Lunch with iovation

By: Tobin

Tobin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:23:39 +0000

Defensio & Mollom try to be better akismets. The think I like about akismet is that you can help “train” their algorithm by reporting false positives and false negatives.

Also if you provide it with sufficient information (such as ip address of the client and email address of the writer) it does a pretty good job.

I had built some moderation tools around our use of akismet that allowed us to review what Akismet flagged as spam and help aid the system. I’ve minimally tested out Defensio and Mollom. We will most likely try a run with Defensio and see how it compares.

By: David Evans

David Evans — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:36:58 +0000

Akismet would be interesting, although it’s catching a lot of valid comments as spam.

iovation is using a shared database of fradulent activity and there are other companies out there providing the same for images.

I would not rely on Akismet and I don’t know enough about the others to judge them.

A common black-hole list for all dating and social sites in in order.

By: Tobin

Tobin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:42:33 +0000

Have you heard of any creative uses of services like Akismet, Defensio, or Mollom for stopping profile and messaging spam?

Each of these offers an api that will accommodate most custom applications wanting to reduce spam.

I’ve integrated with Defensio for a few projects and think it works well. Akismet and Mollom are almost identical and work quite well too.