My observations about controlling Spam in your Drupal Website

So I have multiple Drupal Websites and controlling Spam is one of my jobs. Following are some of my discoveries while managing these websites and spams:
  • Whenever lots of illegitimate users used to create their users account, I became absolutely sure that either the core is out of date or are the modules. Updating them became my first priority. ( By far, the most important way! )
  • Then there is honeypot module which works like charm. The catch is that you don’t get form specific timing option out of the box so you have to choose the least common time for all the modules which can many of times defeat the purpose of having honeypot. 
  • ReCaptcha is another great way to keep your spammers occupied. It surely can defeat the purpose of having honeypot ( but all automated bots will get bypassed by this ). 

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