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Now… my spambusher script gives me some very rudimentary statistics… and in the 2 days and 9 hours since that post above, the number of spam registrations has gone up 50%… but the number that I actually delete myself has gone down by about the same number Which tells me two things: 1. People [...]

There’s a fairly simple and foolproof method to automate spammer deletion. It’s easier to let them in and then delete them automatically than to try to stop them from registering in the first place. Otherwise it becomes an ‘arms race’ type of thing, as well as a game of keep-up-with-BP/WPMU-changes if you try to integrate [...]

It’s a lot easier to do the whole thing from MySQL. One query, one click to mark 95% of spammers as spammers (or delete them if you want) and you can modify the query to do anything with anything they left behind them. I clean up their ‘activity’. Marked almost 400 spammers last night and [...]

Why do success and error messages all come up in a red box?

1.1.x (whatever it was) was great. I had an activity stream widget on the front page, so I could immediately see (well, once I’d deleted all the spam registrations) who’d been doing what and where, and I click to go and view the context and respond in the same place. Now I get the feeling [...]

The 1.2 release of BP has gone all wrong My users aren’t Twitter users or technophiles of any description – BP is now too complicated for me to get my head round, and I’m supposed to be the one running the site based on it, so I can hardly expect my users to be [...]