I just thought I’d give a little status update on my usage of Defensio.
Since March 23rd, Defensio has caught over 250000 spams on my blog. Here’s the breakdown:
- 250841 spam
- 608 legitimate comments
- 89 false negatives (undetected spam)
- 52 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)
Still quite a lot of room for improvement if the false positive rate is 8%.
Peter on July 20th, 2008 at 5:05 PM wrote:
Well I look at it this way: out of 251449 total comments, it got 141 wrong which is 0.05%. As for the false positives, I probably get one or two a week lately I’d say which is pretty good. Plus they’re easy to find as comments are sorted by spam rating.
Good to see that we saved you from manually deleting 250k spam! Let us know how our new back end is doing for you!