[pmwiki-users] PmWiki & Spambots Redux: Another Idea
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Sat Jan 19 17:23:25 CST 2008
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:48:55PM -0600, George De Bruin wrote:
> I was over looking at a certain blog package when I found a plugin that
> implements a different "captcha" idea (personally, I like thinking of
> this as more of a "caughtya" idea...:):
>
> (1) add another field to the edit form with a default value
> (2) Hide the field using css
>
> If the "hidden field" gets modified, it's most likely a bot, so reject
> the submission.
I implemented this approach on pmwiki.org a couple of days
ago. I don't know if it's reduced the spam appearing on the site,
but it appears to have helped a little. Perhaps one of our
regular spam-cleaners could comment as to whether they're
seeing a reduction in spam?
Pm
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