[p2pu-dev] CAPTCHA

[Stian Håklev]

+1 for moving away from captcha unless it's _absolutely_ needed.

Stian

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:35, Paul Bakulich <paulbakulich at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for Akismet!
>
>
> On 22 February 2012 00:17, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> We're currently using re-captcha, which is hard for some users. Simple
>> captcha is easier, but I think the best solution is to remove captchas all
>> together.
>>
>> I've read of some really cool techniques on preventing spam such as the
>> honeypot technique: including unused form fields in a page, hiding them
>> with CSS and then marking input as spam if data is entered in the field (by
>> a bot).
>>
>> Honeypot technique:
>> http://www.ngenworks.com/blog/invisible_captcha_to_prevent_form_spam/
>>
>> There are some other JS methods of blocking spam as well. Check out this
>> StackOverflow post:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3743928/stop-spam-without-captcha
>>
>> We could integrate something like the Akismet on comment/discussion forms.
>> http://akismet.com/
>>
>> Would really like to see us move away from captchas while improving our
>> spam-blocking skills.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Britton
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:40 PM, brylie <brylie at gnumedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Can we include a simple CAPTCHA on various site forms such as comments,
>>> course sign-up, etc.?
>>> http://code.google.com/p/**django-simple-captcha/<http://code.google.com/p/django-simple-captcha/>
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