Prevent Spam on Public Apps

[ThinhDinh]

reCAPTCHA or other ways to prevent spam

If it’s a public app then it rules out the option to use a rollup and count the number of submissions from an account, let’s say in the past 24 hours. But I think you can build a table with a single row to serve as your “public user profile” row, and build your tab on top of that row. Add a “session ID” user-specific column. When the user opens the form, before showing the form, set a unique ID to that “session ID” column, and pass that value later on to the submissions table. Use a relation +…

There was a bit of discussion in this thread.

I think the bottom line is there would always be workarounds if they want to spam your site, you do the best you can to contain them.