LiveCode Pseudo Captcha?

Rick Harrison harrison at all-auctions.com
Wed Oct 31 16:11:25 EDT 2018


Nice!

I had also toyed with the idea of
radio buttons for multiple choice
questions and answers combined
perhaps with a date picker.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Rick

> On Oct 31, 2018, at 4:05 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't, but I used a regular form with two radio buttons. At first it said:
> 
> Please show us you are human:
> x I am a human
> x I'm a robot
> 
> Within 24 hours I received spam from a bot. So I changed it to:
> 
> Please choose the correct answer:
> x I am a mindless automaton
> x I think, therefore I am
> 
> And in the last several years I haven't had a single bot find the form. The key, I believe, is to avoid any use of bot keywords like "human", "person", "robot", "bot" or anything else similar. The above looks like an unimportant picklist and they either ignore it or can't parse it.
> 
> A friend copied my form to his website and last I heard he hasn't had a bot hit yet either.




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