Bad Behavior Behaving Badly

In an effort to reduce comment spam into my blog, I installed the Bad Behavior anti-spam plug-in yesterday. It did do a decent job initially, but looking through the logs I found two false negatives out of about 100 requests or so. A 2% false negative rate doesn’t sound like much, but it is too high for me so I disabled it. I’d much rather deal with having to manually sort through a few false positives than have any false negatives.

My apologies to Kewl Nitrox and to “Stephan” (I think a first time visitor) who tried posting comments and weren’t able. I found the content of your attempted post and manually put it back in so all is well.

EDIT: After receiving a comment from the author himself, I’ve decided to give Bad Behavior (this time, 2.0 beta 1 instead of 1.2.4) another try. If any of you have any problems posting comments, please do let me know so can report back! Thanks!

2006/06/16 | Technology | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. Cool idea, spam is horrible. I hope this takes my comment :)

    Comment by Wil | 2006/06/16 at 19:02:46

  2. No worries, sorry I am one of the 2% that had problems. :) Mighty nice of you to manually add in the entry though…

    Comment by Kewl Nitrox | 2006/06/17 at 00:04:27

  3. I’m very disappointed that you didn’t contact me for assistance. You certainly should not see 2% false positives. (False positive is a blocked user; false negative is a spam which isn’t blocked.)

    Bad Behaviour isn’t supposed to have any false positives. You should check to make sure you were running the latest version (2.0 beta 1) and that you actually submitted a report to me if it blocked actual people.

    Comment by Michael Hampton | 2006/06/17 at 04:18:09

  4. Michael,

    Thanks for the reply. I certainly didn’t expect a reply from the author and especially not since the only way I contacted you was via a trackback.

    In any case, I will give Bad Behavior another try knowing that I can get your support if I receive any false positives (you know, I had false positive written down the first time and then changed it for whatever reason).

    I wasn’t running 2.0 beta 1, although I guess I should mention that your downloads page doesn’t have that version listed on it. I downloaded the beta version as you recommended this time.

    FWIW, Kewl Nitrox does live in Singapore so it seems that false positive has already been taken care of. And from the looks of it, I think Stephan was blocked by the misconfigured corporate proxy. Hopefully, those issues won’t be ones moving forward.

    Thanks again for the personal reply. It has convinced me to give Bad Behavior another chance!

    Comment by Chris | 2006/06/17 at 07:18:44

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