What keeps Wandering Thoughts more or less free of comment spam (2025 edition)

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asmodeuslucifer · 9h ago

That one trick is a honeypot text field in my 'write a comment' form. This field is normally hidden by CSS, and in any case the label for the field says not to put anything in it. However, for a very long time now, automated comment spam systems seem to operate by stuffing some text into every (text) form field that they find before they submit the form, which always trips over this. I log the form field's text out of curiosity; sometimes it's garbage and sometimes it's (probably) meaningful for the spam comment that the system is trying to submit.

Good idea, they would have to customize the scripts for your site.

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What keeps Wandering Thoughts more or less free of comment spam (2025 edition)

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