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Add a hidden honey pot field to cog registration #175

Open murphysj opened 12 years ago

murphysj commented 12 years ago

About a third of the registrations we are getting are spambots. We don't want them having valid accounts.

murphysj commented 9 years ago

476 will add captcha to the registration page. This is an effective solution but may not totally stop everything and having to read a squiggle is hard for some.

murphysj commented 9 years ago

Turns out there is more we can do wrt spam control. Django has a Honeypot module we can use to create hidden fields that spambots fill in and then the registration is cancelled:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-honeypot

I am going to keep this ticket open in case the captcha we installed with #476 does not get them all.

murphysj commented 9 years ago

Good article: http://www.bluepiccadilly.com/2013/04/three-things-i-did-prevent-drupal-registration-spam