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foxly posted on the forum topic Here come the spammers!!! in the group Requests & Feedback: 14 years, 6 months ago

@Andrea_r The goal is to limit: 1) Spam PM’s 2) Spam friend requests 3) Spam comments 4) Spam group creation 5) Spam group posts Once a spammer / troll / hostile has created a member account on the system. The goal is NOT to stop: 6) Spam comments on blog posts from non-members. -> Already handled […]
foxly posted on the forum topic Here come the spammers!!! in the group Requests & Feedback: 14 years, 6 months ago

Sounds good to me. Give me a day or so to put some thought into it, then I’ll post a more structured proposal.

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foxly started the forum topic Here come the spammers!!! in the group Requests & Feedback: 14 years, 6 months ago

Seven spam PM’s. From five different users. In the past 24 hours. And they’re getting clever too …they’ve found a defect that allows them to delete the backlink to their profile from the message, making it harder to come after them. I was always shocked by the lack of spam control features on BuddyPress, and […]
foxly joined the group Requests & Feedback 14 years, 6 months ago
foxly posted an update 14 years, 6 months ago

@joymab Wow. FIVE different spam PM’s just today.

Well, I think by this point it’s obvious somebody has written a “bot” to attack BP installations.

Come on core devs! Get this dealt with!

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foxly posted a new activity comment 14 years, 7 months ago

True, but a moderation plugin won’t stop someone from launching a “flood attack” against a BP site …where an attacker “scrapes” the user directory to get all the member names, then uses a bot to hit the AJAX URL the button uses and bulk-posts PM’s to half a million members.

That’s probably what just happened here.

And it’s probably because…[Read more]

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foxly posted an update 14 years, 7 months ago

@aminababy I’m astonished that BuddyPress has no functionality whatsoever for blocking spam attacks like this one. A spammer can literally PM every member on the site and there is no functionality to stop them!
- r-a-y replied 14 years, 7 months ago
  
  Yeah, right now it requires some low-level theme hacking like removing the private message button if the displayed user is not a friend of the logged-in user.
  
  However, Francesco is working on a moderation component (as I’m sure you know!)
  http://flweb.it/2010/04/google-summer-of-code-project-media-component-and-moderation-for-buddypress/
- foxly replied 14 years, 7 months ago
  
  True, but a moderation plugin won’t stop someone from launching a “flood attack” against a BP site …where an attacker “scrapes” the user directory to get all the member names, then uses a bot to hit the AJAX URL the button uses and bulk-posts PM’s to half a million members.
  
  That’s probably what just happened here.
  
  And it’s probably because…[Read more]
foxly posted an update 14 years, 7 months ago

@anabel4you This user is bulk-spamming the site.
foxly posted on the forum topic upload problem in the group BuddyPress Album+: 14 years, 7 months ago

Could you be a little more specific?

What version of BP Album+?
What is the “Upload Thing” doing?

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foxly posted on the forum topic Template for Upload in the group BuddyPress Album+: 14 years, 7 months ago

In the current release version (0.1.7) and the current beta version (0.1.9.2) the upload page is generated inside the plugin core. Which means the only way you can modify it is with jQuery.

But… it will be generated using a template in the *release* version of 0.1.9, so it will be fully editable.

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foxly started the forum topic Test Forum Post in the group BuddyPress Album+: 14 years, 7 months ago

This is a test post to help debug the BP Album+ Forum
foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

@paulhastings0 Just use version 0.1.7, currently on the WordPress plugin repo. It’s reasonably stable and thousands of people are using it on their sites. As for when version 0.1.9 will be ready for full scale distribution, that’s difficult to predict. Software development is a nonlinear process. It’s not like we compile a list of features, know […]
foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

@bplove

It’s not that we’re ignoring your request, it’s that the current beta we’re discussing in the thread *already does* what you are requesting… 😉

Start on the first page of the thread and follow the…[Read more]
foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

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REMINDER * REMINDER * REMINDER * REMINDER* REMINDER * REMINDER
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Just a reminder to everyone on the thread, that the current beta we are now discussing is
version 0.1.9.2 which you can…[Read more]
foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

@tosh

Yes. The plugin will be fully “wired” for other programmers to be able to work with it.

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foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

BREAKING NEWS:

Google has accepted our GSOC funding proposal!

That means we now have TWO full time coders (myself and francescolaffi) , plus Boon Gorges and Andy Peatling as our tech mentors.

Let the good times roll … 🙂

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foxly posted on the forum topic BP Album+ || New Features Requests and Discussion in the group Third Party Components & Plugins: 14 years, 7 months ago

@bplove Basically, use version 0.1.7 from the WordPress plugin repo. It works properly, is reasonably reliable, and it will update properly at the next release. Do not use the 0.1.8 beta, because it doesn’t use the new file storage scheme and we’re not writing an updater for 0.1.8 because you’re not supposed to be using it […]
foxly joined the group Third Party Components & Plugins 14 years, 7 months ago