[nightowl99]

I must be overworked or hallucinating. Signups are disabled, wp-signup was deleted some time ago, and they are still creating new accounts and blogs as we speak! How is this possible? For a while I kept entering the ip s in wp-ban and had given up on that plugin, but I noticed it caught about 600 attempts in the last 24 hrs. Still, a few dozen got through anyway.

The only other way I can think of is that a member is “inviting” them via the “Allow blog administrators to add new users to their blog via the Users->Add New page.” on the WPMU options page, so I’m going to disable that as well now.

We’re still a relatively small and young community and all these restrictions and jumping through hoops is hurting us.

[nightowl99]

Well, I pretty much tried most of the suggestions here on this thread, and for a couple of days it was quiet. But since yesterday a new and much more aggressive wave is battering my poor little site with as much as 70 new accounts and blogs per hour.

The last wave started shortly after this log entry:

http://www.webwarper.net/ww/~av/www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.NET%20inurl:%22register%22%20intext:%22Registering%20for%20this%20site%20is%20easy,%20just%20fill%20in%20the%20fields%20below%20and%20we%27ll%20get%20a%20new%20account%20set%20up%20for%20you%20in%20no%20time.%22&start=10&sa=N

These accounts don’t have ANY fields filled out from the BP registration form. Even if I re-write that page they’ll just pick something else to hunt for. I’m back to asking folks to contact me if they want to join the site, but that’s a major deterrent for most, understandably.

[nightowl99]

Thanks for the reference to the other thread. I saw that it’s a bug. Good to know, thanks!

[nightowl99]

I am experiencing the same problem. Main blog (BP default theme) is fine, member blogs show author avatar in all comments.

[nightowl99]

Hi Steve,

your fix for the “404” upon delete worked for me, Yay! Thanks so much for figuring this out!

It does reload the entire page and I can’t even remember if that’s how it used to be. I seem to recall that the delete button just sort of “zapped” the entry in an ajaxy way, but it’s not really important. Main thing is, it works!

Thanks again, nice work!

WP 2.9.1.1 and BP 1.1.3

[nightowl99]

Me too. Same issue. They even tick a checkbox and get past a Captcha . BP User ID and required text field entry contain a short random string like A6vLtHqlgT.

The .htaccess modification described by D’Arcy Norman doesn’t work in these cases.

[nightowl99]

I’m sorry if I missed something vital but I’ve searched without luck for some time now. My mu/bp experience is rudimentary, to say the least.

Group forum support is working but how do I get it to work on the main site? Currently, topics from groups forums show up, but of course no way to post unless you’re a member of that particular group.

Mu 2.8.4a

Bp 1.1-rc

squidlog.net

[nightowl99]

Hi Mike, I guess that was pesky me, wanting a 3-col layout

I’ve been making some minor mods and it’s looking good so far. I did notice that IE doesn’t display the left column of the front page properly, any ideas what I could do to fix that? (the site is http://squidlog.net).

Thanks much.