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Thanks for the post here, I just noticed this “bug” as well!

I’m quite sure you can’t tack on just any component in the bp_is_active() function.

It should be like this:
if ( bp_is_active('profile') || bp_is_active('activity') || ... etc ) {

The easiest thing would be to list what you want publically available.

Here’s a function to build on:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

more of general feedback – i think the new site is great and all the hard work that goes into something like this (especially pulling in the plugins to groups)

but i find myself a little distracted – i can’t put my finger on it (maybe since i’ve tweaked my own stuff to bring things more inline) but something with the disparity between sections (activity). i hate being vague though so I realize this is not helping

One weird bug – after sending a private message: my adminbar shows a new notification but obviously nothing is there as i sent one instead of receiving.

Thanks for the link. I’m going to try that if my current changes don’t work. I changed the register slug and added more required fields to the signup page. I’ll let you know if it works.

PS
Looking at that code it seems it still let admins send PMs. If that’s true could it also be changed to allow other “ranks” such as authors, subscribers, etc.?

Try this until a more, full-featured privacy component is available.

Remove send private message button for non-friends:
http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/03/buddypress-hack-remove-send-private-message-for-non-friends/

Got my second spam message as well. It seems to be affecting multiple BP installs so I think it should be a high priority to do something about it.

I’m getting these on my own site. These are spam bots and they found a way into BP. This should be a number one priority for BP. I’ve seen this stuff with phpbb and other CMS. It very easy for these people to bring down your site.

there is a plugin “BuddyPress Profile Privacy” which can make profils available only for friends

i’m alsa searching a plugin to filter member, activity etc to logged users…. but i didn’t find so far ..

Yeah I just got two spam private messages in the last two days. Here is the latest one:

Please reply back with my email (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk)
Dearest,
How are you over there?
I know that you would be excited for the fact that you do not know who is writing.
Actually my name is Mis. Anabel Awaza,Please my dear i will like us to hold a good long time relationship with real love.and I have something very important that I need to share with you. I am very serious; I shall tell you more about myself and send you my picture in my next mail.please reply back with my email address (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk))
Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Yours Anabel.

View Spammer’s BuddyPress profile:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/anabel4you/

I’d keep group types separate from your normal types (public, private, hidden). You’d still want a group of a certain type to be able to be either public, private or hidden…

Message spam is getting out of hand.

hi @r-a-y is_site_admin() and is_admin() are very different. is_admin() checks whether you are inside wordpress admin or not.
@scotm
How about making the activity of admin user private
`add_filter(“bp_activity_hide_sitewide_before_save”,”make_admin_activity_private”,10,2);
function make_admin_activity_private($hide_sitewide,$activity){
//get the current activity
if(current_user_can(‘manage_options’))//user is admin
return 1;
else
return $hide_sitewide;

}
`
Hopefully the code goes through this forum.

Is this happening with all kinds of input? Forum posts, private messages, activity items? Also, what version of bp-tinymce are you using?

I haven’t been able to test this completely, but it seems like the automatic group adding isn’t working if the group isn’t set to a public group. If it’s set to private then it seems like it tries to make the request maybe, but isn’t finishing the process of adding the person to the group. I’ll look into this more as I have time unless you get a chance to look first.

All over it.

Wow 😮 thanks 3sixty for moving it up, maybe I was being too respectful should have changed it myself

And thanks JJJ for the quick patch to #2343 Can you also look at #2293 if you’re not already.

“Post something to xxx”
This actually should be described more clearly. It is ambiguous whether you are posting something to them privately or publicly (until you try it out).

Well cared for? yes guess it was but I’m still concerned that it generated no other interest or was that simply that the milestone was set to far in the future?

No hidden groups shouldn’t be used period until such time as this issue is correctly dealt with, hacks worry me used to cure this sort of problem. however given that Boone looked into this I’m pretty happy the fix is a fairly safe short term fix.

As you spotted I questioned whether or not the milestone should have been moved up? to 1.2.4 but it was a question unanswered, I placed it in 1.3 as I wasn’t sure where it ought to have been placed but asked the question upon creation and notification in original forum thread.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2293