[LRUG] Anti-spam measures

[James Darling]

> The spammers have found the comment forms on my app, it looks like
> I'll need to implement some anti-spam measures.
>
> Any suggestions ? Askimet, Captchas, switch my comments over to
> Disqus? Googling around for this turns up a lot of old plugins, what's
> the current accepted "solution" ?

I haven't done this in a little while, but I usually use one of two  
things.
The first is Akismet, which I've had good experience with.
The second, if you are not going to be personally targeted by  
spammers, is to make a simple prove-you-are-human form like "type cat  
in this box", which is then auto filled out and hidden by javascript.  
Invisible to JS-enabled users, a mild inconvenience (much better than  
captchas) to non JS users, and stops generic form submitters.

James