Spam: An Ongoing Issue

We have reached out to the devs before about this issue. Thankfully – thanks to reCAPTCHA – the spam never gets to the front end.

However, it astounds me that they haven’t implemented any further spam prevention methods. One I’d like to see is based on a sort of “bot capture” whereby almost all the bots will fill inputs with name ’email’ or ‘url’. Imagine an extra hidden field which is added to the prayer request form. This field is hidden for the user and user will not fill it. But this field is visible for the spammer. If the spammer will fill this trap-field with anything – the prayer request will be blocked because it is spam. This blocks automatic spam messages (sent by spam-bots via post requests). This does not block manual spam (submitted by spammers manually via browser).

I’m really tired of seeing spam in our admin. Other forms I’ve built take care of this issue. Please take care of this one. Thank you.

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