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look in the sidebar.php code and see if there is placeholder=”” in the form

It might have got included in the custom theme. Usually this has username and password in those spots. Also if someone on a computer saves that to the browser you have to delete cookies and settings to remove it. How to depends on the browser.

I simply use the facebook connect. and have disabled any other form of registration or login.
and i only get 1 user unless they have multiple facebook accounts and i get the benefit of avoiding the need for any other authentication

since facebook spend millions confirming its users i get to use that development for free.

I do know however that 99.9999 % of my users will be facebook users

So when i look at yoru delema i wonder why you want to offer all those ways and in turn CREATE your own problem

WP/BP versions? Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme, clear cache – if register/submit button is working then it could very well be your custom theme.

Same issue, new users going to spam status. How do I “un-spam” a user?

suhrmd – Your problem isn’t the same. You say that confirmation emails are not sent; please read this to see if this fixes your problem:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

No confirmation email is sent when someone wants to register.

I have the same problem.

You can also try this method if you aren’t running WPMU, and nothing else seems to work for you. Just a note, it does require you to change a BP core file. http://adlatitude.posterous.com/how-to-include-recaptcha-into-buddypress

You can get all that working on the BP registration form.

The requiring x amount of numbers for a password can be done with JavaScript

Just curious, what is the reason to use WP registration?

solved the same issue with this https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/

Did you check the junk email folder?

On the registration link: If you are signed in, it will loop you back to the home page. If you sign out, then you will see the register page.

i have the exact same problem. coupled with registration not working. strange that there is no response from the group admins…

To give you the entire picture of what happens when you register, or do anything else, go to Buddypress Test Drive. http://testbp.org.

Register, and you an experience everything it says and does for your site.

On the email subject, Buddypress email are actually wired around WordPress emails. In the very most likely case, the email is at a snails pace, and either ends up at the spam folder, or just takes along time to receive. This pace on which the emails get received will fluctuate, depending on the activity on the site. My emails on my site take a couple minutes to receive, Only because I am on my on server, there is nothing you can really do to speed up the emails, because you are on a host server, multiple servers. Emails taking 20-30 minutes is actually pretty good, compared to most, like on bluehost, which can take up to an hour and a half!