153 Protecting Drupal 8 Sites From Spam Using Honeypot with Jeff Geerling - Modules Unraveled Podcast

## Honeypot
* What is the Honeypot module?
* What prompted you to contribute the Honeypot module? Why was it originally created?

Flocknote (two employers ago) user registration
A bunch of my blogs / comments

* What methods or techniques does honeypot use to detect bots?

A literal ‘honeypot’
Time delay

* What types of foms can it protect?
* What’s different about Honeypot vs. other spam prevention modules like CAPTCHA and Mollom?

Avoid punishing the user (explain)

 
## Drupal 8 and Future of Honeypot
* How did the port of Honeypot to Drupal 8 go?
* Have you started developing new sites in Drupal 8? And if so, how’s that going?
* How have spammers adapted to tools like Honeypot, and how do you try to keep ahead of them?” “More spam getting through Honeypot lately” (https://www.drupal.org/node/2646380)
 
## Community Issues
* You’re also involved a bit in other open source communities for projects like Ansible. How does the Drupal community compare? What are some things you would like to see improved?
* Is there anything you’ve done to make sure you can continue to maintain this open source project among many others both on drupal.org and github, and not get burned out?