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Plugin for stopping fake profiles and rapid activity spam?

jmk10276
Member

@jmk10276

12 years, 2 months 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.

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@ChrisClayton
Participant

@chrisclayton

12 years, 2 months ago

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

Their isn’t really any spam protection plugins for buddypress available right now though,
https://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 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

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