Sock'Em SPAMbots
CAPTCHA fields inhibit both human and robot participation in important kitty-related discussions. Sock’Em SPAMbots exists to take a more seamless approach to SPAM blocking, placing the burden on the robots, not the humans. Any combination of the following can be enabled:
- Javascript: require basic Javascript support, and in the process prove the user visited the actual comment form (instead of just submitting straight to WP).
- Cookies: require basic cookie support, and again, prove the user visited the site before submitting a comment.
- Honeypot: generic formbots will often populate all form fields with gibberish, so we can assume that if text is added to an invisible field, something robotic is happening!
- Speed: automated scripts complete comment forms with inhuman speed, thus if submissions happen really quickly, we can assume it is a robot doing the submitting!
- Links: reject comments with excessive number of links.
- Disable trackbacks or pingbacks independently of one another.
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Changelog
1.0.0
new
Add privacy policy hook for GDPR compliance.
new
Added translation support.
new
Debug log is now in JSON format.
new
A warning is now displayed on the Sock’Em SPAMbots page when debug mode is enabled.
misc
Code cleanup.
misc
The plugin has been relicensed under WTFPL; go wild!
0.9.0
new
Form expiration test.
new
max comment length.
new
Ability to disable comment author links.
0.8.1
fix
Enahnced link counting to include [url] tags and plaintext URLs.
0.8.0
new
Ability to reject comments with excessive number of links.
0.7.0
new
Ability to exempt authenticated users from tests.
new
Update per-post comment and ping statuses en masse.
new
Warn administrators if
bbPress
or BuddyPress
are installed.