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Tally
Mar 14

Tabs for potential spam submissions

Identifying spam submissions is a hard task. Thanks for integrating with reCAPTCHA, but this pattern has proven a lot of issues, both for user experience but also reliability. I want to suggest an option that would be beneficial to long forms. The idea would be to allow Tally users to set a minimum completion time, under which a submission would be placed in a separate tab called "Potential spam submissions". The idea behind having a separate tab is to make mass deletion easier, and reducing the chances of deleting a legit one by mistake (it would be the exception that is easy to spot, and not the other way around). We would need a [Move to submissions] or [This is not spam] button. For forms taking 5 minutes and more to complete, I think we could guarantee a high level of confidence in spam categorization for submissions that took, for example, 1 minute to complete. This alternative could be explicitly suggested to Tally users as a substitution for reCAPTCHA.
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