The 6 Stages of Spam Protection

The journey of the folks over at Laracasts on how they stopped spam (for now) on their forums. Keyword Censoring Email Confirmation Language Detection Throttling Honeypots reCAPTCHA Comes with (Laravel) code snippets to go along with that. The 6 Stages of Spam Protection → Yes, that dreaded reCAPTCHA. Hate it all you want, but it …