Implement a captcha system to prevent spam-bots from creating groups

BostonPython / studygroup

Prototype Application to allow creation of study groups within a given Meetup group

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Implement a captcha system to prevent spam-bots from creating groups #6

Open nedbat opened 10 years ago

mmilkin commented 10 years ago

@nedbat will recaptcha work?

nedbat commented 10 years ago

I don't see why not. I've never implemented any of these systems, just seen them as users.

BTW: for extra bonus points, implement a Python library to use the honeypot scheme described here: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html That way, there's no CAPTCHA at all, and we could have a nice reusable library as well!

mmilkin commented 10 years ago

So reCaptcha is super easy, its actually harder to test then implement, I can create a pr for it. https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html#recaptcha

However I personally dislike most captcha systems, they usually turn away more real users then bots...