[p2pu-dev] CAPTCHA

[John Britton]

I've added a note for us to tackle this problem along with the sign-up
process, see this card on Trello: https://trello.com/c/gKfCS4LX
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for moving away from captcha unless it's _absolutely_ needed.
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> Stian
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:35, Paul Bakulich <paulbakulich at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> +1 for Akismet!
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>> 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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