[pmwiki-users] PmWiki & Spambots Redux: Another Idea

[Patrick R. Michaud]

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