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There are other techniques that do a reasonable job at stemming the flood. The "hidden field" technique still reduces spam by quite a lot.
by jMyles 7y ago
There are other techniques that do a reasonable job at stemming the flood. The "hidden field" technique still reduces spam by quite a lot.
- arkitaip 7y agoThat technique hasn't worked for years. Try setting up a vanilla WordPress installation with the most popular forms plugins. The only anti-spam measure that works is reCaptcha v. 3.
- ksangeelee 7y agoFrom experience, Akismet works well, so reCaptcha is not the only anti-spam measure that works for WordPress.
- inimino 7y agoI wrote about another technique at the end of my own captcha rant: https://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/kill_captcha https://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/kill_captcha The proposed solution would replace captcha entirely, but to my knowledge nobody has tried it.
- basicplus2 7y agoHow about different revocable secret keys to your mailbox given only to those who you wish to contact you
- inimino 7y agoIf people have to request to be able to contact you, it is not a public inbox anymore. This is the way most walled gardens work, you have a separate step before you can interact, so it works, but it lacks some of the affordances of the public inbox model of email or blog posts, such as allowing anonymity.