What's so different about Defensio?
Stellar accuracy, thanks to an adaptive, personalized filtering algorithm
As you post articles to your blog and your readers' comments flow in, Defensio adapts to your content and habits in a personalized way. This means that no two bloggers will see Defensio react in precisely the same way, even for similar comments, which is a good thing -- because one person's ham might be another person's spam. And our continuously evolving set of algorithmic tricks ensures that we'll never let spammers gain the upper hand.
Ridiculously easy spam management
While no filter is perfect, we believe in making spam management as easy as possible for the end user. Defensio sorts your quarantined comments by their "spaminess" value. This means that finding the occasional legitimate comment buried in your spambox (aka false positive) becomes dead easy: with Defensio you simply need to monitor the top portion of your quarantine to be confident that there's no ham amongst your spam.
RSS feeds of your comments and spam
Obsessively checking your blog's admin panel to manage the comment flow is literally a pain in the neck. Defensio's silky fingers massage that pain away by providing RSS feeds of all comments and spam messages posted to your blog, in digest form, to make it a cinch to follow the conversation. And what's best is that since it's Defensio, new spam messages will always be sorted by spaminess, making it ultra easy to pick out the good stuff.
Detailed statistics for complete transparency
If you're like us, you like to know what's going on. We believe in letting you in on how Defensio is performing on your own blog; it's your traffic after all! Beyond providing up-to-date accuracy and traffic statistic directly in the plug-in, Defensio's Account Management panel dishes you delicious charts so you can monitor the evolution of spam and performance over time to satisfy your inner bean-counter.
Not just for blogs
One of the first applications of Defensio's spam filtering service has been the blogosphere -- but it doesn't end there. We've built an easy-to-use public API that is perfectly suited to handling comment traffic from any social web application that might be subject to spam. So, if you're a developer and are interested in integrating Defensio into your own web app, check out our API spec and/or drop us a line.
Great! But how does it work? Well, at a high level, it's pretty simple.
- Your comment traffic is routed through Defensio's spam filtering service.
- Every comment is analyzed by our system and attributed a "spaminess" score.
- Defensio makes the call : Is the comment spam or is it legitimate?
- If it's legitimate, the comment is immediately posted to your site.
- If it's spam, the comment is quarantined for your review.
To get Defensio working on your blog today, you need to first sign-up for an API key.