On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 9:32:23 am Joshua Partogi wrote: > I want to ask for your advice here regarding the honeypot field in > django comments. Is it really useful to prevent spam? Or should we add > another method for spam prevention and shouldn't really rely on this > honeypot. I currently been getting several spams on my site but I'm > not sure whether the spammer is a bot or a human though. If it is a > spam bot, it would be very interesting how a bot can recognize there's > a hidden honeypot field and by-pass it. Or would a spam bot be able to > recognize visible fields and fill in only those visible fields? > Anybody have any advise and experience with django comments spam > prevention?
the only time I used the honeypot I took tremendous flak from users who were getting caught in it - and anyway that particular app required a login for comments, so I safely removed it. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
