The sitewide activity widget is a prominent part of my homepage and is often cluttered with spammer registrations saying ‘x x became a registered member’. We delete spammers about once a day but this still means that for several hours everyday the activity mainly shows registration information. Since new registrations don’t add much value, I would like to get rid new registrations posts from showing in the activity stream.

I am running BP 1.1.2.

Is this possible and how? Thanks.

[@djsteve Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I would love to see this, and actually I think it would be prudent to keep people’s activity out of the stream until they have been a member for a selectable amount of time, say 2 days, 3 days, a week. Perhaps even have an option fot amount of posts or something. This would keep the spam blog posts they make from pushing the legit ones off my front page.

I would also like to see this filter turned off if logged in as admin, so we could administer the the spammers better – I often go to my front page and look at the activity stream to find the spammers – so if this filtered my view, than it would be harder to hunt them.

Good idea – maybe a plugin will be created like this one day.

[@kunal17 Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I tried looking here

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

but there does not seem to be anything that will solve my problem. Can anybody point me to the write place in the files to remove registrations from activity feeds?

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

check out:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/removing-blog-posts-form-the-swa-widget#post-36775

but instead of component == ‘blogs’ change it to type == ‘new_member’

then change your theme activity/index.php to remove the select option ‘show new members’

I would also like to see this filter turned off if logged in as admin, so we could administer the the spammers better –

using the above example – add before the loop

if ( is_site_admin() )

return $activities;

[@helloari Participant 14 years, 8 months ago]

FYI the ‘delete’ button in site wide activity didn’t work for me (bp 1.1) but this fix worked:
http://www.bestbop.com/sitedev/topic.php?id=4