Volunteer form does not check for repetition

[mdeuk]

The new 'I want to volunteer' form added in #1179 / #1208 does not appear to sense check responses so as to stop the same reply being given in every freeform text field.

This leads to form-spam being generated, as the spammer's script merely inserts the same nonsense in each field.

Proposal: Prevent repetition by validating the data inserted, ensuring a unique value is present in each field (where required).

[WilliamWDTK]

Other possible nonsense input:

Checking "I'm not sure yet" with other tasks.

You probably could argue there are situations where that's applicable, though.

[garethrees]

Checking "I'm not sure yet" with other tasks. You probably could argue there are situations where that's applicable, though.

I'd definitely interpret this as "I'm open to suggestion"..

Proposal: Prevent repetition by validating the data inserted, ensuring a unique value is present in each field (where required).

We do have a ContactValidator but we'd need to complect that to handle the "volunteer" vs "general purpose" forms.

IDK if we can do this easily with HTML validations?

This leads to form-spam being generated

Have we had lots already?

[mdeuk]

Have we had lots already?

@FOIMonkey crunched the numbers on #1473 (comment) - at the time of writing there had been 16 in the week.

It's not a massive issue, just a little bit of an admin nuisance.

[garethrees]

@gbp I think you did something that checks for repetitive content? Close if so.