Is there any way to stop spammers?
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I’ve installed buddy press 1.1.3 and wpmu 2.8.6. I tried everything to stop spammers but all in vain. Is there any remedy to stop spammer. I tried wp-recaptcha code but it doesn’t appear on sign up page. I changed .htaccess file per this blog post http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/ but it didn’t work. I made changes per this blog post http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/ but all in vain. Could anyone please help.
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I’m in the same boat. Have used a bunch of different captchas including the recaptcha that has been reworked for BuddyPress to no avail. Even took down our registration page for a day to make sure spammers weren’t bypassing via bbpress or somewhere else…. it was nice not having to delete spam accounts for a day.
We may end up taking buddypress out at some point here until there are better spam tools in place.
Crap, the spammers have now found my site.
These are not the spammers with name+year usernames, like ‘johndoe1973’, that I used to get on test sites. Those seemed to bypass the registration and activation process, because they didn’t show up on my mailing list.
The spammers I get now have realistic sounding full names and apparently usernames generated from those fullnames (my regular custom registration). I recognize them from the long random strings they add in my custom Company field.
Haven’t seen them registering blogs yet. What are they even trying to achieve?!
Sploggers is a serious problem that WPMU/BPAutomattic needs to address!
http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/
i guess this is one of the best trick against spam blogs and “wild” registrations.
Step 1 and 2 are a bit obvious, but 3 and 4 are really efficient.
Keep in mind that on a wpmu site each blog created by a member has his first post and comment appearing on the default template – the good ol’ kakumei… on which is also written “powered by…” ( Step 2 is only for main blog i think) Spam bots eat this with delectation i suppose.
Spam programs are written to bypass signup. Well. I presume other narrow words like join, fall in, get together are also activ in such programms. But what do these programms if you choose “groink” or “methabolic” ? So follow the explanation and choose a really original word for your signup redirection. This works well for the moment. And don’t forget to put the functions.php file the in mu-plugins folder (to be theme independant).
To use in addition with some other solutions (wp-ban, invisible defender, …) of course.
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