Reply To: Fighting Spam User Registrations
buddypress is not doing anything to stop it.
And pray tell what is BP supposed to do about it? Be nice to get some suggestions!
fwiw spam is a pandemic or appdemic issue it affects nearly all CMS / forum apps out there on the net, the issue is not one that can be effectively dealt with one can only stem the tide and also fwiw it’s up to you the end user of this frely provided software to put you various traps and safeguards in place, and to be massivelly pro-active in the fight, if on the other hand – as some have wailed, that they return to their site after a week and it’s all full of spam well…
So posts – and they are quite frequent – that point the accusatory finger at BP ought to stop doing so, it is NOT BP’s issue it’s yours!
And there are a whole heap of approaches one can take and a million threads on the subject, oh and it’s not just above specific apps or plugins a little knowledge of how to manipulate resources such as .htaccess can help.
