Our data quality guru recently asked me about creating "honey pot" questions to help catch bots. These are questions that are "hidden" to respondents but will be picked up by bots. I use the auto-punch next to hide questions. Any thoughts on creating questions only bots would get are welcome!

Apparently @TomG discussed this elsewhere - https://www.qualtrics.com/community/discussion/1623/deletedI think you want to use JavaScript and not CSS (since bots may be smart enough to determine is something is hidden via CSS), and you want to hide the entire question (and the separator before it). So use the JavaScript below for any question you don't want real respondents to answer, but you want bots to answer.Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function() { jQuery("#"+this.questionId).prev('.Separator').hide(); jQuery("#"+this.questionId).hide();});Make sure you don't force response on any of these questions. Ideally, you'll put them in their own block. Then in the survey flow immediately following the block, terminate (and probably screen out) any respondents who answered the questions.

> @VirginiaM said:> What do you mean by "I use the auto-punch next to hide questions."? I don't know how to do this but would like to!> There is a thread on this somewhere but here is the JS for it :)Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function(){this.questionContainer.hide();$('NextButton').click();});

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