Is the honeypot spam protection method versus the reCaptcha method better or worse? Can someone please elaborate a little more on the honeypot spam protection method? The reCaptcha method is pretty straightforward but I don't know how the other one works.
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honeypot spam protection method versus the reCaptcha method
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Here is the information from Drupal's site of all places (https://drupal.org/node/1232638):
Honeypot form protection means that an invisible field is added to a form. If this invisible field is filled out (bots will usually put in a value), then the form will return an error. Normal users (read: human beings) won't ever see the field, so they won't fill it out. Even if they do, the field is labeled in such a way as to indicate the human shouldn't fill out the field.
This is not foolproof, though, as many spam bots can detect hidden fields, and they can also be adapted to work around a particular field on your site (this isn't typically the case for smaller sites, though). To prevent against this, you are able to change the field's name from the default, 'homepage', to whatever you'd like.
Posted 11 years ago on Thursday June 13, 2013 | Permalink -
You just need to check the box for it to work. I suggest you still use a CAPTCHA if you are having spam issues.
Posted 11 years ago on Thursday June 13, 2013 | Permalink -
It asks you to select a picture. So it will basically be like "if you are human, click the soccer ball" and only one of the images will be a soccer ball.
Posted 11 years ago on Thursday June 13, 2013 | Permalink -
No problem, glad to have helped.
Posted 11 years ago on Thursday June 13, 2013 | Permalink
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