Adding a Human Test to Foundry 3 Form

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Since upgrading my website with Foundry 3 and using the form tool in it I’m being swamped by spam. If there is a easy way to add a Human Test to the form, I can’t seem to find it.

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You could add a required field, or checkbox, to the form but most bots fill in all fields when submitting the form.

Foundry’s Form tool has a built-in spam bot trap, often referred to as a honey pot, that is a hidden field within the form. This plays off the fact that bots fill in all fields when submitting a form. The Form tool looks to see if that honey pot trap is filled in and if it is the form will not be submitted.

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Thanks for the info. The spam I’m getting is solicitations so I guess it’s just something I have to put up with.

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If it is a bot that is somehow skirting the honey pot then I don’t think a “human test” field would be much of a challenge for it. But maybe it could. I’ve sent you a DM requesting some further information.

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I know I may be stating the obvious and if I am I apologise, but have you got your email address anywhere in the page either as an actual text link or assigned to a button or somehow in the source code such as in a privacy policy etc? The only reason I ask is that I made the ‘mistake’ with my own website when I rebuilt it in F3, (with a completely new fresh domain name and therefore email address) I added my email address contact@mydomainname on the contact page and then used form@mydomainname for the form. After three weeks I suddenly started getting inundated with spam to the contact@ email address but haven’t a single instance of spam for the form@ email address. It gives me good confidence that the honeypot is working and have since taken off any instance of the contact@ email address from my website and have actually trashed the contact@ email address altogether.

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I would highly recommend taking a look at Obscure by Doobox. Once set up, you put a substitution code on your page, which is then substituted in the browser on page-load, and it completely bypasses the bots.

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I had included that but now you mention it I’ve just removed it from the footer. Thanks for pointing that out.

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