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Created by Jen Wechsler
Created on Aug 25, 2026

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Honeypot or other cyber-security solution on RedPoint forms/landing pages

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Product value score
6
Is there a hard deadline associated with this project? (If yes, select the date) (Optional) Sep 30, 2026
Business Priority (Optional) Conversion
Values Public Service
State your hypothesis, tying your project back to the impact it might have.

We should be able to add some hidden fields or code to outsmart the bots and stop the thousands of spam submissions on our forms.

Which metrics would you use to track the success of this project? We will use this as the foundation of our experiment design. (Optional)

No bot submissions on RedPoint forms.

What problem are we trying to solve for our communities with this experiment? How might it help us better serve them?

Our RedPoint forms have attracted bot submissions for some time and the existing "honeypot" solutions that used to work on our older forms no longer work. We had used a hidden field with Fax as the value that worked as a deterrent and we also had a bit of static HTML code we used on forms to stop bot submissions.

<input type="hidden" id="custId" name="custId2" pattern="nobotsallowed">

These solutions don't work. Solvenna has asked RedPoint and we're not able to add a reCAPTCHA or other validation to our forms at this time. Solvenna is asking us to resolve this for ourselves. We're out of things to try. Does the Web Dev team have any ideas on a solution?

Lay out the potential project steps to the best of your ability, including key teams that would need to be consulted. This is your best knowledge of the systems, tools and lift that would be required.

Test some honeypot options or find a validation solution.

Effort (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
Urgency (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 4
Business Impact (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 4
Cost (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
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  • Julie Arnzen
    Aug 26, 2026

    Note: reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare is not an option that can be directly added to a Redpoint form. Short of skinning EVERY Redpoint hosted form and adding one of those verification options on that skinned form (now on our web site), what can we do?

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