I like those ideas, thanks :-)

--nahum

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:23, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:36 AM, nahum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So I'm now getting a significant amount of spam signups. Has anyone used
> any
> > third party plugins to prevent this they liked? There are the captcha
> type
> > solutions, anyone know of any math based ones?
>
> One clever idea I ran into was to rename your email and name fields
> but still create hidden fields called email and name. This way anybody
> who fills out the field called "email" is a bot and you can take the
> appropriate response. It's non intrusive for the user as they don't
> really care what the fields are named.
>
> I have often thought of dynamically naming your fields with guids or
> something and keeping the field names in flash or in a session
> variable. This would also prevent double submits. I haven't seen this
> done anywhere but it seems doable and a simple solution to spam as the
> spammer has no idea of what the fields are to be called.  You can
> combine this with the above to throw in a couple of bogus fields in
> there and reject any submission with the bogus fields filled in.
>
> Just some ideas if you have time to fool around.
>
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