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<script type=”text/javascript”>
var _SKYAUTH = {
loginUrl:’REPLACE WITH FULL LOGIN URL’,
memberNick:’REPLACE WITH CONTEXT CODE TO GET MEMBER USER NAME’,
memberId:’REPLACE WITH CONTEXT CODE TO GET MEMBER ID’,
profileUrl:’REPLACE WITH MEMBER PROFILE URL’,
photoUrl:’REPLACE WITH MEMBER PHOTO URL’
};
</script>
I’m positive I saw this mentioned recently here but I can’t find it.
Anyone know of a plugin that allows you to promote/bury (or thumbs up/down) an activity update? ie the community can promote good updates and bury bad ones (like spam).
I totally agree with this. It’s quite confusing. I think more than a rewording of the text is needed.
Perhaps you can give people a series of simple steps they should go through to complete setting up their membership?
Step 1: Activate your membership
You give them instructions to visit their email account then click on the activation link in the email.
When they click on the activation link they’re taken to the next step page…
Step 2: Customize your avatar
They do this then press the button to complete, then they’re taken to the final step…
Step 3: They’re then directed to the activity page, at the top of this page could be a message to tell them their account is now active and they can start posting.
This 3 step process gives people a clear path to follow taking them to the page where they can then see what’s going on and begin taking part.
Each step page is nice and simple.
What do you think?
I have similar issues, and I have been pondering possible reasons this occurs.
I take the time to copy domain names that spammers com from, and add them to the mu-options as domains that are not allowed to create an account. I find that even after doing this, sometimes I get several more members with those email addys.. sometimes not.. the past week has seen a lot.
There was a time a few months ago when it was a known bug for this, but I am guessing it’s been fixed in mu by now – (I’m using 2.92 I think).
This is what I am thinking MAY be happening, and I’d love a way to update MU to close this loophole, if indeed it exists.
I am thinking that the spammers actually created a dozen or more accounts, and only activated one at a time. I am thinking that perhaps by the time I add the bad domain to the list of no-signups-allowed, they have already created several others – and simply activate them later.
If this is true, I would love for MU / Buddypress to do a check, when a member actually does this activation, and tell them sorry – the email domain is now on the bad list, and they can not activate.
Not sure if this is true, just a thought.
Still looking for help on this. My new BP site finally went live today — http://www.wordlab.com/ — and I’m getting a couple signups per hour that never click on the activation link. Some may be legit but can’t figure out the activation process, but from email correspondence I’ve only found one who fit that bill — the others never respond to me, so I’m guessing a fair percentage of them are spambots using fake email addresses.
So it would be great to have these improved User sorting options in the WP Admin, so I could track down bogus registrations, perhaps those that haven’t been activated after a set amount of time, and delete those users in batches. An alternate strategy would be to have the system auto delete (or delete en masse on command) any registrations that are never confirmed after a set period (10 days, 30 days, etc.)
I’ve run into a similar problem but it’s not related to the emails not going through.
In testing, I have found that almost without exception, that no one pays attention to the text above the crop avatar to check their email for the validation.
The system takes the user to the crop avatar portion, which they do, but after submitting their new avatar, they are left on the same screen, with just a small text warning above the avatar to activate their account.
Actually, it even caught me off guard a few times, not realizing I needed to activate a new account.
Maybe in the future make this much more obvious?
I think this problem is connected with the mailing settings of my server. I’ll investigate this more.
I keep a test install running live, clean without any undue mods or plugins, naturally it’s spammed which is fine as I have deliberately not employed any controls and simply delete the odd few that occur. Having not had the chance to check in a few of days there were quite a few so decided as public registration was not required to close it off so proceeded to dashboard ‘options’ and set ‘Allow new registrations’ to ‘Disabled’.
To my surprise quite a few hours after disabling registrations I find that there have in fact been some registrations pass through? So what gives here am I mad or is ‘disable’ not meant to mean what it suggests, has anyone a clue as to why or how this has happened?
Hi Andy
Thanks for your reply.
I think the problem is the email isn’t being sent out to the new members with the link for them to activate their account.
I’ve checked everywhere including spam folder to see if the message has been received at all but I just can’t find it.
New members are being given the roll of “members”.
Could you possibly tell me where within WordPress I would set up outbound email configuration?
I’m going to turn off all the plugins (except BuddyPress) to see if there’s a plugin conflict that’s causing this problem.
Do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks!
This means that the user hasn’t activated their account yet. I need to change the message.
Hello
Do you have any suggestions on a fix so new members aren’t always marked as spammers?
This is for a new installation of BuddyPress and they are the only 2 members I’ve added myself to test out membership to the site.
Here’s the message I’m getting when I visit a new members profile page from the admin area:
“This user has been marked as a spammer. Only site admins can view this profile.”
I’m using BuddyPress 1.2.3.
How do you unmark someone as a member?
Why is it that new members are marked as a spammer, how does the software decide this?
How can this be fixed or controlled?
Thanks for any help you can give on this.
Brian
Are you sure the emails are not going to a junk/spam folder?
Hi: The issue of spam has gotten us into trouble and so we are looking to add “New Registration Moderation” plugin. The idea is simply: (1) anyone can register. (2) Their registration will remain in a place where only Admin can see, after receiving an alert. (3) Admin clicks a button to authorize the legitimate registrants. We saw a few plugins that sought to address that, including a buddypress version, but all of them are old, substandard and not working.
We’d like to pay for your development time, and also make that plugin available to anyone wanting it. Would you please help? I can be reached at arezkiofstow@yahoo.com
For anyone that runs across the problem. I never got any response from anyone here so I found an Ajax login plugin that is working beautifully as a workaround. I’m also not having any issues with spambot fake registrations this way either.
ok, so if anyone is usimg the twi connect plugin and a users does not activates after signing up and then goes to your site and clicks the twitter login it will log them in but they will be marked as a spammer. I edited database to 0 and its ok
How do you remove this? Somebody is marked as a spammer and they are not. They reset password over and over.
I’ve got a DB error in my live site, but it didn’t show in local computer.
http://iluni-ftui.org/alumni/epsi/sobat/requests/
WordPress database error
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ID)
FROM ft_users WHERE spam = 0 AND deleted = 0 AND user_status = 0 AND ID IN ( )
I’ve trace it. CMIIW
:-: bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/friends/requests
if ( bp_has_members( ‘include=’ . bp_get_friendship_requests() . ‘&per_page=0’ ) )
:-: bpcore/bp-core-templatetags.php:30
function bp_core_members_template
…
else if ( false !== $include )
…
This is not the case because
:-: bp-friends/bp-friends-templatetag:166
function bp_get_friendship_requests()
…
return implode…
…
This function will return empty string when it has no unconfirmed request.
So $include would have an empty value, but not exactly a false object.
Another question.
1. How do I submit ticket to http://trac.buddypress.org ?
2. And how do I surpress WordPress database error ?
Thank you for attention.
Hmm it’s holding up then.
Well it’s been 3 full days now without a SPAM signup.
Windhamdavid, your post got marked as spam by askimet (spelling?). I’m just going through the spam bin atm.
The phrase “Famous last words” springs to mind 
But post back with update if still not getting spam maybe I’ll do the same with proxy bans
@Kunal17: I’m sure that’s probably just a coincidence.
@pushi22le: That’s a new tip. Thanks :o)
BTW… since banning proxies from accessing my site… I haven’t had a single SPAM signup.
I upgraded to bp1.2.2.1/wp2.9.2 from bp1.1.2/bp2.8.6 a couple of days ago and the spam on my site has significantly increased.
I also noticed that spammers from previously banned domains are now able to register.
I’ve been getting pummeled with spam signups ever since the BP_REGISTER_SLUG stopped working throughout the site. I used R-A-Y’s idea of just having an .htaccess redirect. Just curious: If others have taken that approach, does it indeed cut down on spam signups?
The BP demo site is also full of spam. Very interesting.
