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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 so the best prevention as an admin is being active on your site.

One plugin that looks good for preventing registration spam is WangGuard. (Search for it in the WordPress repository.) I’ve just installed it, so can’t tell you if it’s as good as it sounds. (I run a very busy blog and allow commenting by unregistered users. Akismet catches spam and Conditional Captcha deletes it without my seeing it. The latter reduced spam from hundreds of comments a day [marked by Akismet] to near-zero. Only the occasional human spammer gets in.)

Allowing unmoderated registrations is spammer nirvana. 😉 I allowed posting by unregistered users so I could turn off user registration. Now that I’m wanting to use Buddypress, I had to enable registration but installed WanGuard. Within a few hours, I had one registration attempt — even though Buddypress can’t be seen anywhere on the site yet — but no successful registration, thanks to WangGuard. Tomorrow will tell me more.

@tduschei How to add sidebar to all BuddyPress pages in Twenty Eleven theme http://wp.me/p1I84P-60

when I activate the BuddyPress theme

Which BuddyPress theme are you referring to? Where is this number showing up?

Upload profile image at activation https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132

+1 to that idea or any way of encouraging users to add an avatar during sign up.

A big improvement could also be made to the activity stream. Currently it isn’t possible to have personal activity AND friend’s activity in the same feed. Would be nice.

@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 adding some spam/spammer prevention.

@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, Put it in your functions.php

http://pastebin.com/a2mTNVZX

Note: I have 3 sets of this code, I have the one which can ban specific email from gmail, yahooo, hotmail etc without banning other users using gmail, yahooo, hotmail. if you want that aswell i can post it or all the 3 if someone can release it as a free plugin , no problem.

Naijaping

@dowy Add the following to your theme’s stylesheet:

#buddypress table tr.alt td {
background: none transparent !important;
}

#buddypress table tr td.label {
border-right: none !important;
}

.label {
background-color: transparent !important;
}

Doesn’t require any change in Akismet.

Akismet plugin will need a little change – it will need to tie reporting to role.

BuddyPress will need to incorporate the functionality of members/users flagging activity, the way users can report messages in software like phpBB.

+1

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4130

You can probably set up a CNAME on your DNS to do this — best idea is to ask your host for assistance with this.

Unfortunately BuddyPress’ activity stream is pretty much a “write once, never update” thing right now.

@inetbizo you can post blocks of code in pastebin.com and post the generated URI here. You’re describing what looks to be this section of the Groups Directory page https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.7.2/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/groups-loop.php