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Yep, I had 5 like these today and several before past weeks:

firstnamelastname19xx as usernames, all from different email domains.

They did not post, but also did not have much time to do so.

I mark them as spam immediately, but am tired of doing so, so hope a splog solution is nearing…

how about checking all blog posts and all pm to akismet/typepad antispam?

only certain trusted group are excluded.

or perhaps after the user post a dozen good, non-spam content…

oh yes, there is an entire industry in especially central Asian countries (Bangladesh is huge) where halls of people solve captcha’s for $1 per 1000-5000 captchas.

See http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20080311/human-captcha-breaking/

Don’t forget to read the last 5 comments or so

Though I am in favour of having spammers employ and pay poor people in Asia, I hate spam even more and have abolished all captchas from my site as still too many people cannot read them, so it is chasing people away. And, as the link above proves, they do not help anyway.

possibly, there exist new semi automatic method?

a spambot that present to human a captcha so that the spammer only need to enter the captcha and everything else is automatic…?

@ Peter – sure certainly not, but each incoming door need to be monitored

since i use the trick i have no more splogs or spammer registering !

wp-ban works nice, invisible defender also and wp-spamfree did correctly his work too….

a little additionnal htaccess hack and the wp-login file hack make things going right for me.

I put some emails in the wp ban admin but i don’t know if this works correctly.

I didn’t use captcha or similar techniques.

Unless you have 1 million splogs sign up a day, you can always manually check and delete each splog. Trust me, you can discourage spammers to splog you, but you won’t be able to get rid of new spammers and new splogs. Unless you have a smart programmer that programs a good algorithm in recognizing splogs and spammers, but it probably gonna cost ya big time.

r-a-y, I’d like to try the .htaccess solution, but the instructions are very ambiguous:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .yourbpsignupslug*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Should I leave the dots (.) and stars (*) around ‘register’ and ‘mywebsite.com’?! What would be mybpsignupslug if I have the registration form on my homepage as well as /register?

My spammers all sign up with .info email addresses. Is there any way to just block all .info?

Legitimate members should use normal .com emails, like normal people.

Sounds like you’ve been caught by the spam filter. One of us moderators will resolve this issue for you soon (I am at work at the moment).

We didn’t ignore your threads, they were caught in Akismet and marked as spam.

@anointed, can you try adding that line into “wp-plugins/bp-custom.php” ?

It should work in wp-config.php or any other file that loads before BuddyPress does. The goal obviously is not to modify a file that’s replaced by core updates, so wp-config.php or bp-custom.php is safer than bp-core.php.

The code…

/* Define on which blog ID BuddyPress should run */

if ( !defined( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG' ) )

define( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', 1 );

Checks to see if BP_ROOT_BLOG was defined by any other file previous to BuddyPress loading, which is done inside the “plugins_loaded” hook which is in wp-settings.php, which is loaded after wp-config.php.

PM me again if your topics are marked as spam, and I can open them back up.

I’m not sure how Facebook connect works… but allowing sign up or not is simply another configuration setting. I think it’s under the WPMU settings menu.

Thanks you very much David !

I have just changed the settings and it works fine !

@Erich73: Um… just change your WordPress discussion settings in the dashboard.

so how to adjust the settings in a way that “unregistered users” and “not-logged-in users” are not able to post a comment to my main-blog at all ? Only registered and logged-in-users are able to comment ?

Do I need to install a plug-in for this simple feature ?

thanks !

This might help you further.

http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/stopping-spam-comments-sitewide/

And why take the social out of a social community plugin..?

You sure that is not spam?

Why did you uninstall SI captcha?

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam works with WordPress 2.6+, WPMU, and BuddyPress

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

WP-reCAPTCHA is not up to date for BuddyPress 1.1, that is why it does not work.

Could this be used as a simple captcha? ie 2+2= “4” and they have to put “4”. I have seen simple captchas like this where the field is labeled name or something, so the spammer put zuingling0234. Normal user just puts 4 and is able to proceed. Your thoughts?

Is this a common problem? Can others who are receiving spam please reply?

Remember – you can turn off emails on your notification settings.

I’m struggling with a lot of spam registrations.

– a lot list country entry as random characters “Ot9XLfiFD7WNCu” Is there a way to set Country so it has to be a legit one?

– a lot come from email addresses such as “myspacee.info” “@mysace.info” Is there a way to force email confirmation … so they have to receive an email and click on a link to confirm registration?

– is there a way to mark someone as a spammer and delete them at the same time in the admin?

Sigh… I don’t have time for this so I may give up.

Would be nice if a site user can “Flag” a spam entry to disable the user.

I’m not aware of any captcha plugins for this, but it’s a good idea. I haven’t time to look into the code atm.

Were you able to resolve the problem?

I have a similar plugin that is fully WPMU and BuddyPress compatible:

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/