Implement a captcha system to prevent spam-bots from creating groups #6

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1. mmilkin commented on Apr 16, 2014

   

   mmilkin

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   @nedbat will recaptcha work?
2. nedbat commented on Apr 16, 2014

   

   nedbat

   on Apr 16, 2014

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   I don't see why not. I've never implemented any of these systems, just seen them as users.

   BTW: for extra bonus points, implement a Python library to use the honeypot scheme described here: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html That way, there's no CAPTCHA at all, and we could have a nice reusable library as well!
3. mmilkin commented on Apr 16, 2014

   

   mmilkin

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   So reCaptcha is super easy, its actually harder to test then implement, I can create a pr for it.
   https://flask-wtf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html#recaptcha

   However I personally dislike most captcha systems, they usually turn away more real users then bots...