[drupal-devel] simple and effective comment spam prevention exists and works

[Morbus Iff]

> On Saturday 01 October 2005 10:44 am, Theodore Serbinski wrote:
>> One method we may want to look into. When a session is created a for
>> user and they are on a page that allows comments, we come up with a
>> unique hash based on say the node ID and session ID. We store this in
>> the user's session. When the user goes to create a comment, we pass
>> this unique hash with a hidden input field and when they click "post
>> comment" we verify this input hidden hash against one stored in the
>> user's session. This should prevent most spam comments, IMO.

Anything you can think of, I can program
a bot for. The above isn't a solution.

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