Spam Bot Prevention

jmar42 · April 18, 2015, 7:45pm

What are some people doing to help eliminate spam bot users?

proyb2 · April 18, 2015, 8:08pm

Altapp/Meteor-reCAPTCHA/blob/master/README.md

# Meteor reCAPTCHA
Google's reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human. In addition to protecting your site, reCAPTCHA also helps digitize old books and newspapers.

reCAPTCHA is at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/

Package made with the help of this [StackOverflow question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22253196/working-example-of-recaptcha-in-meteor).

## Installation

``` sh
$ meteor add altapp:recaptcha
```

## Setup

### On The Client

Add your reCAPTCHA public key (from Google) to the package. Do this in client-side code.

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or check out which ever is good enough for your site.

Maths challenge with calculus or a Millionaire question or some puzzles.

Ideally, we could monitor user mouse movements and keystrokes to identify if the spam was a bots or humans as well and you could blacklists IP.

Block Tor users for anonymous online activities.