Merge Badbot with BOTCHA [#2072405]

Hello Yuriy,

Your module looks very much related to BOTCHA - don't you think?
I am the BOTCHA maintainer and I offer to combine efforts. See related issue: #1847632: [META] Merge with similar modules.

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yuriy.babenko CreditAttribution: yuriy.babenko commented 26 August 2013 at 17:22

Component:	Code	» Miscellaneous
Priority:	Major	» Minor
Status:	Active	» Postponed

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for bringing BOTCHA to my attention - I hadn't come across it before.

I'm a bit hesitant about the proposed merge; I'm planning to re-structure Badbot fairly heavily in the near future, basing its core on the Devtools framework, and that wouldn't tie into the BOTCHA design pattern. Additionally, BOTCHA seems a bit 'heavy' on the dependency/code side of things. I'm not sure a single, large anti-spam module is a good idea. The different modules currently available all take different approaches to blocking spam, and individual sites may benefit from some and not from others.

I think a pluggable SpamAPI (as suggested here), with separate child modules for individual anti-spam techniques would be the best thing going forward. Maybe we can look into developing that for D8?