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Plugin for stopping fake profiles and rapid activity spam? (2 posts)

Started 3 months, 2 weeks ago by: jmk10276

  • Profile picture of jmk10276 jmk10276 said 3 months, 2 weeks ago:

    Hi,

    Just noticed that I had a spammer create a fake profile on my site and then somehow rapidly post an insane amount of activity posts on the site. Is this common? Is there any way to prevent this?

    By the way, I’m new here and was unable to search these forums effectively, in case this question has been addressed before. Any assistance for future searches would be greatly appreciated. :)

  • Profile picture of @ChrisClayton @ChrisClayton said 3 months, 2 weeks ago:

    @jmk10276 in buddypress 1.6 their will be Akismet integration built into buddypress, which will help kill the activity spam. http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

    Their isn’t really any spam protection plugins for buddypress available right now though,
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-labs/ is the plugin that the 1.6 core akismet-intergration is based on, but as the plugin page states “all experiments are in beta, and come with no guarantees.”

    Another option might be to use a captcha plugin to kill them at the registration page – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/