Using captchas and the nature of spam

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@gaetawoo

Again off topic but doesn’t Netlify have a robots honeypot or captcha option?

Spam Filtering
By default we run a spam filter when a form is submitted. If our filter flags a form submission as possible spam we will show the user a CAPTCHA challenge before storing the submission. Alternatively, you can have us replace this with an explicit reCAPTCHA 2 challenge for all visitors, directly in your form. You can also add a honeypot field to trick spam bots into submitting forms that we will automatically reject.

Yes, but this captures robots and that is no longer the burning issue. It is real people going through thousands of sites and submitting spam that is the current problem, not robots.

The anti-spam processing is supposed to throw up a captcha image when it detects something spammy. Either that isn’t working or the spammers are just completing the captcha anyway.

I’ve just uploaded some additional changes to see if they improve things.