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grey-areatoday at 5:15 AM1 replyview on HN

Can you expand on that? A separate honey pot sign up page invisible to real users, or something else?


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mads_quisttoday at 5:17 AM

You add "hidden" inputs to your HTML form that are named like "First Name" or "Family Name". Bots will fill them out. You will either expect them to be empty or you fill by JavaScript with sth you expect. It's of course reverse-engineerable, but does the trick.

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