Post ApiDwIVlDGKU1Xzer2 by cks@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #ApddxVahh7BhthkC4u by avali@social.avali.zone
       2025-01-01T08:39:48Z
       
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       I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.I am not joking.No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApddxWlNKvJnX5kELo by avali@social.avali.zone
       2025-01-01T08:47:26Z
       
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       In case you are wondering, the backend code when you submit that form is basically:if (YouClaimToBeASpamBot) {   return success;}else {   SendTheMessageToMe();   return success;}
       
 (DIR) Post #ApddxfqJZvcJh17nnc by avali@social.avali.zone
       2025-01-01T10:19:35Z
       
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       UPDATE: I have just got my first spam message, literally just the word burger in every field... but filed under copyright? Yeah sure whatever....It's clear someone found the form haha
       
 (DIR) Post #ApdnH7Y7gnzGiFxo0W by octade@soc.octade.net
       2025-01-01T14:07:30Z
       
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       If you add several hidden input fields rendered invisible with CSS so the user doesn't select them, the spam bots often will select them and fill them out.
       
 (DIR) Post #ApdnT3baBCRvxHH18a by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
       2025-01-01T14:27:11.315672Z
       
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       @octade @avali Two check boxes, one labelled "I am a bot", one labelled "I am not a bot". Both start unchecked.
       
 (DIR) Post #Apgb64NEXXnBhciJv6 by shalien@mastodon.projetretro.io
       2025-01-02T22:53:27Z
       
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       @avali Is not that called a honeypot ?
       
 (DIR) Post #Apge2Qn1YWFXvdjYmm by octade@soc.octade.net
       2025-01-02T23:20:24Z
       
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       I surmise there are many web front end developers lurking the Fediverse.
       
 (DIR) Post #AphbJZ0c92MBdeWoaW by shalien@mastodon.projetretro.io
       2025-01-03T10:30:36Z
       
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       @hyratel @avali i don't even wanna know
       
 (DIR) Post #ApiDwIVlDGKU1Xzer2 by cks@mastodon.social
       2025-01-02T01:39:16Z
       
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       @avali @mhoye My techblog would be absolutely overrun with spam except for an invisible text field called 'name' that says "please don't put anything in this field". All of the automated comment spam submission software out there is drawn to it like bees to flowers.(I also make people preview their comment before submitting it, which is another stumbling block. I do that partly because my blog uses a weird wiki dialect and this way people have some chance of seeing formatting problems.)