Hashcash, Akismet and Honey Pots

I totally don't like any user gymnastics just to allow them to post in a form, and it is quite not needed with integration with Wordpress Hashcash or Akismet, for example. Does your plugin do so?

Can it and would you consider it in the future if not now?

If not that, you could implement a honey pot approach. Create a field that is not visible to a human visitor but is "there" nonetheless and visible to machines and require the field to be blank in order for a successful submission yet trick the machine to think something must be there so the machine fills it in.

You can see more about form honey pots here:

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html

Though I hate user gymnastics, your form software was so good I could not resist. I hope you will consider the honey pot alternative.

Thank you for reading!

Jeff

Cool! In the mean time, I plan to use custom.css in my Semiologic theme to hide a field that is required to be blank, but call it "email" or something to attract machines to complete it. Can I make a field required to be blank in your form? I have not looked yet, perhaps this is obvious somewhere.

I also need a unique ID for the specific field. Is that possible?

I will custom build my honey pot if I can do these 2 things. :)

Thanks for responding!

Hi Carl, was just coming here to see if there was an update ...

For my work around in the mean time was going be to use a manual honey pot as described above in the first post.

1. Is there a way to require one of your fields to be empty? Would seem to be a simple implementation in your script, and then add an additional rule tick box "Required left empty" or something.

2. Can I create a fields on a form but not display it to humans (visible to machines)? I assume I could use display: none for a custom css class, but my understanding is that does not make the field invisible, but rather removed the field from the form altogether.

Perhaps I am oversimplifying things, but the addition of these 2 abilities on GravityForms would allow users to manually create honey pots by adding, for example, a field called "Required Email", then require it to be empty for successful form submission, and only display it to machines (invisible on the screen).

Then again, maybe this IS the process you intend and I have no idea of the complexities involved and you are waiting to find a time line for coding. :)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for a great product!

Jeff

I recently changed all the forms on a busy site from MMForms/Contact Form 7 to Gravity. While I love the admin interface and the notification features, we're seeing a lot more spam despite using a required numeric field. (I flatly refuse to use a captcha. Users should not have to do extra work to solve my spam problems. The numeric field is bad enough.) It's not bad enough to make us change back... yet.

I hope Akismet integration is a priority!

I would also like to request the above mentioned spam features. I also think they are a priority.

Keep up the good work,

Moshe

Please tell me 1.5 has Akismet support. Even most free contact form plugins for WordPress already support Akismet. I loathe and detest captchas and try to avoid them like fire. I'm thinking about purchasing GF but if it doesn't have a basic and absolutely essential feature like Akismet integration, then I'm sticking to free alternatives.

Sorry for digging this up. But has the spam issues been resolved? I've been using GF for some time now but just recently I got a load of spam submissions that were added to the global entries and not spam enries.

I have akismet installed but I guess it's not helping.

How do you I install honey pot?

I can't use captcha on my site because my contact form is on a narrow sidebar that is just 250px wide so a recaptcha form doesn't fit or any other captcha. Also I don't want my customers to fill out captchas.

Also how do I delete all these spam entries? http://i.imm.io/SUvB.png
I know in spam section you can just click on delete all... I don't know
how to delete them through mysql.

Please help, thanks!