Spam is a real problem

[jc00ke]

I'm not exactly sure what needs to be done, but the amount of spam submitted to Calagator makes the RSS feed pretty much unusable.

We have talked about upgrading to a new CAPTCHA, but maybe we need something else.

Thoughts?

[evolve2k]

May I suggest to make newly added events more discoverable and to make it super easy for anyone then to make events as spam.

Something like this:

Not sure which of these features is currently alread around:

• Visitors can mark an event as spam
• Create an new dedicated page for "Newly added events" (and preferably venues too!)
• Add a new page called 'Newest' to the Events Submenu to show the new page.

[jc00ke]

Interesting idea, though it wouldn't address the spam that comes through the RSS feed, though maybe I'm in the minority of Calagator users.

[evolve2k]

Umm it's more work, but maybe there's a delay between when events are added to newest and when they are considered live, eg at which time they'd go into the RSS feed.

This would give a moment to fish out the rubbish before it gets broadcast to the various places. Sort of like how in a CMS blog posts can be marked 'draft' before they are in a published state.

[botandrose]

FWIW I've had great success with the invisible_captcha gem

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[evolve2k]

Invisible Captcha provides different techniques to protect your application against spambots.
The main protection is a solution based on the honeypot principle, which provides a better user experience since there are no extra steps for real users, only for the bots.
Complete and flexible spam protection solution for Rails applications.

invisible_captcha looks good to me!

[evolve2k]

Just found that @DGaffney has coded a nice light way to stop spam by having a community passphrase.
Found this via the network graph, turns out they had attempted to contribute it as a PR.
Details here for those wanting to add better spam protection.
#698

I'd say its very much time to revisit and reopen this PR.