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bp-help replied to the topic Buddypress Spam BOTS PLEASE HELP in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 6 months ago
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I produced a small plugin that is geared toward automated spam attacks but I haven’t gotten any feedback as far as its effectiveness:
https://github.com/bphelp/bp-spam-killer
As far as spam attacks from real users I think there are helpful solutions out there but spammer hacker types will always find way to circumvent any prevention method…[Read more] -
@mercime replied to the topic Buddypress Spam BOTS PLEASE HELP in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 6 months ago
@wpbp 1. Disable registration in Settings > General.
2. Disable group creation in Settings > BuddyPress > Settings > Groups.
3. Disable album creation/uploading of images in the plugin’s settings or are you referring to native WP image galleries?
You can enable group creation and registration after you’ve done some general housekeeping and…[Read more]
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Prince Abiola Ogundipe replied to the topic Buddypress Spam BOTS PLEASE HELP in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 6 months ago
@wpbp, The problem is that many spam nowadays are not bots but real human spam. I have same problem on one of my installation. all you can do is to ban the domain which has been a source of spam to your site. e.g: spam1@me-now.com. spam22@me-now.com
when you put “me-now.com” in the following code, it will ban any email from me-now.com,…[Read more]
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