Tom · BuddyPress.org

Tom replied to the topic BuddyPress 10.0.0 "La Pino’z" in the forum Miscellaneous 2 years, 10 months ago

Not sure about anyone else but this gave my server an internal 500 error after updating and my VPS CPUs are always at 100% when anything buddypress is loaded, the website calms down after a few mins and if I load anything from buddypress the CPU skyrockets again into a grinding hault!

There must be some dodgy SQL statements or something happening.

Tom replied to the topic Blocking Buddypress User signup/Group spam in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 3 years, 2 months ago

I dont see why it shouldn’t be server side, Ive tried both V3 and V2 Captcha using the plugin “Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha Settings” as I can actually see the Captcha be added to the buddypress register page, but Im still getting 10-20 fake registrations a day!

what one do you recommend?

Tom replied to the topic Blocking Buddypress User signup/Group spam in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 3 years, 2 months ago

Hi @wackao I already have a captcha on my register page, which is why its confusing why I have so many bots, I just deleted 1000 groups!
This is my register page

register

Im wondering if there is another way these bots are signing up, like an API or somehow the default wordperss signup.php? I am not sure

Tom started the topic Blocking Buddypress User signup/Group spam in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 3 years, 2 months ago

I have had thousands and thousands of bot signups every day with thousands of spam groups being made, I have a captcha on my signup page and I have custom required field, yet somehow thosuands of automated bots are signing up and spamming my website! Its out of control, Ive tried a few plugins and nothing seems to stop them!

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