I’ve used this honeypot technique for the past 4 years with tremendous results.
The above link is a MODX FormIt tutorial but there’s no reason it can’t be used elsewhere. The honeypot is just a bit of CSS and HTML and is not specific to MODX.
As others have mentioned time and again a honeypot will not prevent a human from manually spamming you but it will dramatically slow-down or even stop automated attacks.
I used this same technique on two sites that were previously getting dozens of (automated) spam messages per day. They have been spam-free for years with the rare exception of human submissions.
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