[p2pu-dev] CAPTCHA

[Paul Bakulich]

+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
> --
> contact info:
> http://www.johndbritton.com
> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>
>
>
> 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/>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> p2pu-dev mailing list
>> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
>> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/**listinfo/p2pu-dev<http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev>
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> p2pu-dev mailing list
> p2pu-dev at lists.p2pu.org
> http://lists.p2pu.org/mailman/listinfo/p2pu-dev
>
>


-- 
*Paul AL Bakulich*
*
*
*Association for Computing Machinery <http://member.acm.org/~paulhomebus>*

http://palbakulich.me/
http://twitter.com/#!/palhmbs
Off +64 9 439 1457
SKYPE - Availability:* * <http://goog_793294039/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.p2pu.org/pipermail/p2pu-dev/attachments/20120222/e7e935ff/attachment.html>