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I'm working on a search site. But the data being searched is only the data submitted by the public. I have no need for users, but I want to discourage people/bots from submitting complete junk that would lessen the usefulness of the site.

So far, i'm considering a CAPTCHA or confirmation via a link sent to the submitter in email.

Thoughts?

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Added a few additional tags and, ironically, was forced to answer a Captcha to confirm my edits. – Keith DeLong Oct 23 '10 at 19:00

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CAPTCHA is a bit of a hassle for your users but the trade off is it's the current standard for ensuring data is submitted by a human. Implementing CAPTCHA some time back on out web site reduced spam from forms to zero.

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ReCAPTCHA works really well in my experience and is easy to integrate for most platforms. – pate Oct 23 '10 at 23:02

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