I have a site also receiving tons of activity stream spam and agree that an admin link with “Mark as Spammer” on the stream page is a great idea.
Wow, world renowned support? 7 months and still no answers! I have the same issue guys, I get a ton of spam on my activity streams. I have 4 different anti-spam plugins, and guess what? Non of them help with the activity stream. This is something Buddypress needs to be looking at!
There has been a ton of talk about controlling Spam on BuddyPress.org… try tooling through this post for some ideas:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam
YES PLEASE. I’ve just marked about thirty spammers, and I’m not done yet. It takes longer now that the link in the admin bar doesn’t immediately mark people as spammers, but takes me to the profile where I have to traverse the whole page to reach the checkbox and then submit the form.
My spammer problem is so bad this week that I sat down and figured out how to do this. Here’s the mini plugin I wrote. It restores the “Mark as Spammer” link in the admin bar and adds a “Spammer” button to the activity stream: https://gist.github.com/3815688
Stephanie, can you post an enhancement ticket about this on Trac?
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
Login with the same credentials you use on this site.
I added it in a comment on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4469, but I can do a separate one for the activity button if you like.
