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So I’m getting spammed now from East Indians! What’s new! Anything we can do to stop this?

Can I approve blogs before they are allowed?

In the meantime, is there a way to clear and recreate the cache so I can make the needed changes?

I get what you’re saying, but this type of “abuse” is unavoidable.

As there is HUGE potential for abuse in this, I would love to see the ability to remove something from the activity stream as an admin. Like a ‘delete’ or ‘warn’ or ‘mark as spam’ button for the admins next to each of the streams.

@Jeff Sayre – Will it be safe to have latest SVN version on production site? I am not sure about it so asking..

For now, I am going to export the online DB to my local machine and see if it makes a difference or not.. (if the tables are not automatically getting created that means, the issue is with the spam bots else the issue is with something else)

I will post updates in a while..

I am on RC1.. I had Send Invites plugin installed, it messed up the whole thing (i.e. it automatically disabled the JS for some reason), so I deleted the plugin file and folder.

I had installed WP Super Cache too, it did not work well, so I had to take it off too..

Other than that, no MU plugins…

Here is the list of plugins I have installed for a single blog:

Akismet

All in One SEO Pack

Global Translator

Google XML Sitemaps

SexyBookmarks

Smart Youtube

Smilies Themer

Twitter for WordPress

Twitter for WordPress

WordPress 2.6+ and bbPress 0.9 cookie integration

WP Custom Login Logo

I disabled all the plugins but still the issue remains.

In my previous reply, I had disabled registration just to cross verify.. but still the new tables are getting created..

I traced the user from the User ID mentioned in the table name.. the user looks like a spammer to me.. but now sure what the user is trying to do as those created tables have 0 records…

It doesn’t look like spam as I don’t see much increase in registration (wp_users table) The tables are being generated for the users which are already present..

I have disabled the registrations now.. let’s see how it goes.. I really doubt if it will work though..

Thanks for the inputs.. any other pointers which I should look for?

I just had the ‘bleeding edge’ upgrade completed a few hours ago. Prior to that I am unsure what vs. I was using.

As to admin rights:

Is it possible to have a usergroup that can ‘moderate’ the posts on any forum but do nothing else like touch the plugins, themes etc?

I’d like to have 2 groups,

admins that can erase posts

mods that can ‘suspend’ posts or unpublish them, and have a message sent to the site admin that the content was inappropriate etc… Kind of how like vbulletin does things. We have warning systems, mods, admins, super-admins, etc… I am able to create custom groups with custom permissions etc, to allow them to do only things I want. This has saved my butt more times than I care to talk about.

As to deleting the user:

For the most part I wouldn’t want to be that drastic.

I have many people that come to the forums, and post stuff that I don’t agree with, or don’t really believe belongs on my site. They are usually well meaning people, but have much lower standards than I try to keep up with on my site. These people I usually just make part of a separate group, with very few permissions, like only able to post in certain forums, no pm system etc….

Usually I can ‘work’ with them, to let them know what I found offensive, and many times the problem does not come up again. If I had simply banned them, then very few people would survive on my site.

There are the people that just come in to spam our site from time to time. Those people I have no problem simply deleting.

I hope what I am trying to express makes sense.

When I upload this,

<?php

function get_recently_active_users( $limit = null, $page = 1 ) {

global $wpdb;

if ( $limit && $page )

$pag_sql = $wpdb->prepare( ” LIMIT %d, %d”, intval( ( $page – 1 ) * $limit), intval( $limit ) );

$paged_users = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare(

“SELECT DISTINCT um.user_id FROM ” . $wpdb->base_prefix . “usermeta um

LEFT JOIN ” . $wpdb->base_prefix . “users u

ON u.ID = um.user_id

WHERE um.meta_key = ‘last_activity’

AND u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0

AND DATE_ADD( FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value), INTERVAL 10 HOUR ) >= NOW()

ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC{$pag_sql}” ) );

return $paged_users;

}

?>

I’m getting a blank white screen

Sod it, they’re spammers – had a look for profiles and looked at some more of the email addresses, they’re crap so they’re getting deleted. Sorry for wasting everyone’s time with this.

ok when I create that file and upload it to /mu-plugins/ I get that exact code displaying in my header

function get_recently_active_users( $limit = null, $page = 1 ) { global $wpdb; if ( $limit && $page ) $pag_sql = $wpdb->prepare( ” LIMIT %d, %d”, intval( ( $page – 1 ) * $limit), intval( $limit ) ); $paged_users = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT DISTINCT um.user_id FROM ” . $wpdb->base_prefix . “usermeta um LEFT JOIN ” . $wpdb->base_prefix . “users u ON u.ID = um.user_id WHERE um.meta_key = ‘last_activity’ AND u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND DATE_ADD( FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value), INTERVAL 10 HOUR ) >= NOW() ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC{$pag_sql}” ) ); return $paged_users; }

Lights back on

I see that you cant post to a wire via this option but you still can message people who are not friends. I can go to anyone’s profile and click the send message button. Is there a way to stop non friends from messaging you?

I can see this being used to spam members.

My posts from my own blogs are not showing.

I use feedwordpress to import some posts on the other blogs but blogs are showing that do not use that at all so I cannot see thats an issue

wpmu is in a folder off the root called wpmu and has been working for a very long time perfectly with no issues at all.

BTW, as soon as I put this BP on I have had a ton of spam blogs made so now have had to turn off registration for a while. I have seen there is a fix for this somewhere but wont bother until I know the BP will work.