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Maybe the barrier to posting a comment should be low if you don't have a hyperlink but if you include one then you have to jump through some hoops (captcha's, e
by Simucal 14y ago
Maybe the barrier to posting a comment should be low if you don't have a hyperlink but if you include one then you have to jump through some hoops (captcha's, etc).
- eli 14y agoI implemented that with some success. Much more successful was to simply require Javascript.
- Simucal 14y agoInteresting. Why do the bots run with JS turned off?
- eli 14y agoTo be clear, we're talking about an automated process that is looking for forms to fill out. It's far easier and faster to simply scrape the HTML of a page and look for the <form> and <input> tags to figure out what to submit than to actually fire up something that resembles a real browser.