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		wa1987 on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open-source self-hosted comments systems for stati... > I usually modify HTML forms so that they won’t work and fix them with javascript. This gives me almost zero spam. Interesting. One would assume that most spammers use automated browsers with JavaScript enabled.

f311a on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

Most of the spammers target well known engines such as WordPress. If you use a static website with an external comment engine, most of them simply won't find your website.

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