Dealing with bots submitting our forms

[Alexander Obuhovich]

Any of you probably heard about spam bots, which submit spam to forms on our websites.

Most obvious solution would be to place a captcha on a form. But I don't like captchas because they make entering data on a form a lot harder for me.

If I see form with a captcha I'll better go to another website without captcha and fill out form there.

If you think the same, then reading http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html article might become handy.

Ned there describes popular techniques to prevent bot submissions.

P.S.

I know S.G. had submitted one technique somewhere in groups, but I can't find it. If you can, then please link here.

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[Phil]

I remember you've posted about this 2 years ago, and you were proposing to add a javascript which generate a code. Because bots don't execute JS, they wouldn't have this code in form submission, and wouldn't be able to submit it.

Would this technique still works?

Envoyé avec Sparrow

[Alexander Obuhovich]

Sure. Only if I can find that post with details of that technique.

I don't know why it wasn't implemented right away since it's really automatic and doesn't bother user with entering any weird stuff.