There’s probably a ton of stuff I’m probably missing but recently I was thinking how viable it would be on forms to have users perform an action in the UI such as drag/drop a (for example) paper widget into a box widget (possibly also randomly placed on the page) to represent submission of a form.
The idea behind it being, find some action that a human would more likely be able to perform than a bot. Would this in any way prevent spambots?
(I’m laughing as I type this btw, but I just wanted to see how crazy this idea really seemed)
Sadly I don’t think it would help. All that happens when a user clicks, drags and drops a component is that events (like click) get fired. You could just as easily fire those events programmatically if you were a spambot. Nice idea though.