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Posted by Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Possibly One of the Best Spam Solutions?

I was just reading about this on the David Walsh Blog. What do you guys think?

1 Answer

James Gill
PLUS
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points
James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

It's an old and commonly used trick. Randy Hoyt uses it in his PHP classes here.

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

I heard it was similar to the honeypot method, and it looks like it is, but I think you're right. Anyhow, below are some Worpdress plugins to achieve a similar effect. It's just amazing more people don't use it. I don't even think the Treehouse blog uses something like this.