Akismet vs NetEase?

I just rejected another Akismet spam flag (the updated UI looks nice, BTW) and afterward clicked through just to see - once again - if there was anything I could tune to make detection better:

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Once in the settings I saw that there’s (now?) a choice of spam filter
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Any advice over when we should pick one versus the other?

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Interesting… I couldn’t even find NetEase on Google without including “text detection service”. Looks like it’s part of the huge Chinese conglomerate 163.com, so I’d hazard a guess that it’s primarily trained to detect spam in Chinese. Can’t find any pricing info either, just “Try for free”.

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NetEase was added primarily for Chinese instances that can’t reach for Akismet.

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maybe we should update to say Netease (Chinese) so there’s at least a little hint here

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