what i read here is just childish… what kind of site do you run? from what i see on your site and twitter profile, you are a SEO marketer?…
you start a site for bloggers, what do you think you will do with it… grab spammers. this is the only goal on a site with open registration and off-topics.
i had hundreds of incompetent clients in the past, who thought they were gods and they knew everything and were able to fix everything they were touching… they were also whinners and drama queens. complaining about spam?… sure you can put the fault on the guys here, but that just show that you know nothing about spam, not a single bit.
a good captcha is not useful if the spammer is a human paid by a company to post adverts… a good filtering engine is not good either when the spammers use trolling techniques to post psychadelic messages…
it is the job of the site admin to filter by hand, to approve the content, to find great topics for a site, or simply to not use the boring “off-topic” market that is so profitable… like you just did to raise your seo rank.
you’Re simply not good at seo… leave.
Any of you who continue this thread any further are simply staring the ‘gift horse in the mouth’ so to speak.
~ spam in a problem for every company, be it IBM, Google or WordPress. These companies spend millions combatting it and it’s a problem for almost any CMS, or site that has UGC. If you can’t install Askimet, and/or a couple other preventative measures on your site, then you should hire someone who knows what their doing or you have a compromised(hacked) site where once again, you should hire someone who knows what they’re doing.
while not naming names ~ I have watched ‘your’ post on this forum and you’ve offered very little contribution and quite a bit of negativity. That doesn’t bode well for an open source community who provides you a product free of charge. Perhaps providing some meaningful feedback about your experiences will help the community develop better solutions instead of glaring accusations and harsh criticism? In fact your post in this community are very much like spam for the very same reason. At this point, you’ve pretty much hit an all time low since your accusing developers, many of whom work for free, of turning a blind eye towards the issue of spam. If you’re unhappy with website, may i suggest move on to another piece of software that is magically immune to spam robots, where you’ll most positively be a great asset, not only to them, but also with your absence here on the Buddypress Forums.
The best trick I learned for fighting spam bots is to ask a question that only a human can answer and making them type it into a text box. If you change the question daily or randomize it, it makes it even tougher. Don’t do anything like math or captcha or something that a bot can calculate or decipher. Ask a question like “What color is snow?” or “How many sides does a triangle have?”
But if humans are filling out the forms, you are pretty much SOL.
The ability for an admin to mark user avatars as ‘mature/explicit’ without banning the user and switching the user avatar to a default. And a similar user setting for ‘bozo’ users so that it may appear to a user that his content is still there, but it is filtered from unregistered and other user accounts. This will discourage anyone from creating new users account as a result of being banned and/or marked as spam from a community website.
zageek how do I make it so all the accounts at my site have to be manually approved?
What section of the admin cp is that in?
Are stwc’s solutions not enough?
IMHO – being overcritical will not solicit the best help. Like any community – you’ll need to fight spam regardless of the platform and requires ongoing patience to battle.
Some tricks I use
block all MSIE456 users, block bad bots, block known spammer country CDIR ranges, rename template pages, try whatever plug-in and tweak if needed.
I agree with you totally I also highlighted this issue in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/spam-domains-to-add-to-your-block-list
Not to sound rude but it feels like if the developers or the main people aren’t too affected by an issue then its not regarded as an issue.
SPAM is major problem and while a test site might work fine if you have niche sites around certain topics you might get more spam than others based upon the fact that spammers might come across your site through keywords specific to your site and as such the devs might not neccisarily experience such problems.
I have tried everything some spambots even seem to get around CAPTCHAs, the only option I have is to manually approve each new user.
So just like other open source software buddy press ignores the over whelming need to fix the spam issues. it’s embarrassing being an owner of a buddy press website when you visit it and all you see is spam.
Instead you ignore the problem by linking to off site half ass solutions.
Will anything be done about this ignored issue or will you continue to play stupid?
Hey:
I’m new to this; be gentle with me.
Here’s the deal: I want to set up a site that has two separate user bases. The main users will be, say, business owners. The second group will be business trainers. I want to keep the two groups separate so that the trainers aren’t spamming the business owners with “Come to my seminar!” style posts, but can interact in a civil way, answering questions, providing information and just generally helping out. It looks like there is a plug-in under development that will allow some sort of segmentation of the user base. Is that correct?
Second. One of the key features of the site will be allowing the Businessmen to comment and offer feedback on the trainers: “I went to this course, and, while he was really interesting, he covered basically the same material as this person did, and they only charged half as much.”
Is this sort of thing currently possible without a lot of hand coding (I know enough php to spell it)? Are there plug-ins/plans afoot whereby one could take and wrestle with Buddypress and get it to do something like that? I don’t have a lot of time, but I have a soft spot for WordPress, and would prefer to use Buddypress than another (paid) system.
Thanks in advance.
Thats true, it just seems that some users seem to run into odd little problems that the devs may or may not get because they may not have users on their test sites interacting with the site in the same way.
But with time I am sure everything will be ironed out.
If the devs can’t reproduce an issue, it’s pretty hard to fix, right? 
I did all of that, infact I changed the signup slug to something completely random by just punching the keyboard randomly and those dam sploggers keep on appearing.
Something I have noticed is that if only a handful of users experience a problem and the devs and gods aren’t experiencing it then its regarded as a non issue. Sorry for being so blunt but thats just the impression I get.
There are many threads with problems by users that don’t go anywhere because of this.
“It seems like the Splog problem is not being taken seriously enough “
Sure it is – but a bunch of the devs have open test sites and aren’t getting hammered by splogs because they made a few simple changes, which they DID post about.
There’s tons of solutions posted all over. I’ve found you have to use a lot of them, the main one being change the default signup. Did you do that? Is your register slug custom? Have you added a couple of extra required fields on the signups page?
OK. Cant we make an internal feature to allow us to share list with eachother then so that we can fight these spammers. It really pisses me off and I wish I do DDOS attack on those domains and their IP’s.
Perhaps a plugin that can sync up with a latest list. It seems like the Splog problem is not being taken seriously enough
Working
WP single, WPMU 2.9.1 & BP 1.2
wp-ban
invisible defender
wp-spamfree
bp-links
bp-group-documents
On BP 1.2
Group Forum Subscripton for BuddyPress
SyntaxHighlighter Plus
Quanrantine (awaiting for soon? update)
bp-events
bp-groupblog
Sorry, but we don’t want a list of spammers’ domains listed here. Whilst you have a good idea, posting a list of domains is likely to be helping the spammers get better results in search engines, etc.
I posted this list earlier but it didnt seem to post properly:
These are the domains used in email accounts so far to sign as sploggers…. I will try to update this list as more sploggers sign up. Hope it helps you guys.
Running BP1.2 with single-user WP 2.9.1. Not sure if this is a WP or BP issue, or both, but I have checked for plugins related to both and can’t find a satisfactory solution to this issue.
1) I would like WordPress to log the IP Address and Country of origin of all new user registrations and have that listed in the WP admin / users area. Then the ability to search or categorize Users in the WP user admin area. The reason this becomes an issue for BP is that BP means I’ll be running a Forum with tens of thousands of users. In the past, I’ve had thousands of bogus signups to forums by would-be spammers, and while I’m working on this new installation to block such registrations in the first place, if they happen I’d like to be able to search or categorize users to make it easier to mass-delete spammers.
2) Is it possible to show in the WP admin the number of BP forum posts or replies for each user in addition to the number of blog posts (which are only applicable to a few users in my case)?
Usage example: Many spammer IP addresses resolve to the country of Afghanistan. If I could sort the users by Country and by number of Posts, I could quickly delete all users whose registration says “Afghanistan” and who have only posted zero or one time.
Anybody know of a plugin or plugins that will accomplish the above? Thanks.
@bnt76
I have a couple of questions I have been playing with adding a (tweet this) to the link at the bottom where it says:
‘0 Comments (avatar image) admin created 5 seconds ago – (then here I would like to add a button for sharing)’
Cant find the right section to allow this do you have any ideas?
You need to look at link-loop-item.php, there are a TON of actions in there.
Another question as well is it possible to make the link section your home page, i.e. the first thing I want people to see is the link listing page, any ideas on how to do this?
This was possible on the old default theme using a widget, but I dropped the huge widget until I can maybe bundle an optional CMS type home page with the plugin so there is room for the widget.
Some suggestions (you can tell me to take a running jump on these!)
Is it possible to add a question in the link submission page (to prevent the inevitable spammers) like ‘whats 98 + 17 (enter in box) once they have given an answer the link is posted based on correct answer or wrong one throws up link could not be posted.
I have been thinking about this, and I’m not sure how to handle it yet. I would like to get some more suggestions from the community before I pick a direction.
The other idea is a bookmarklet code so people can post on there blogs etc, or some kind of iFramed box to show how many votes they have received on their blog once the it has been submitted.
This will be in the pro version.
I know I may be reaching here but I just think this is a fantastice piece of code.
Cheers dude, look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers!
This is without a doubt one of the best plugins I have ever seen.
I have a couple of questions I have been playing with adding a (tweet this) to the link at the bottom where it says:
‘0 Comments (avatar image) admin created 5 seconds ago – (then here I would like to add a button for sharing)’
Cant find the right section to allow this do you have any ideas?
Another question as well is it possible to make the link section your home page, i.e. the first thing I want people to see is the link listing page, any ideas on how to do this?
Some suggestions (you can tell me to take a running jump on these!)
Is it possible to add a question in the link submission page (to prevent the inevitable spammers) like ‘whats 98 + 17 (enter in box) once they have given an answer the link is posted based on correct answer or wrong one throws up link could not be posted.
The other idea is a bookmarklet code so people can post on there blogs etc, or some kind of iFramed box to show how many votes they have received on their blog once the it has been submitted.
I know I may be reaching here but I just think this is a fantastice piece of code.
Cheers dude, look forward to hearing from you.
@Bbrian017, you have to add that line to wp-config.php yourself + a few other things. It’s explained here.
It’s a bit of a hack, so I think it would be good if it became part of the basic setup, maybe at installation (wpmu).
I don’t see this register slug inside the wp-config.
What exactly am I looking for.
I could not find:
define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘yourregisterslug’ );
Also if it change the register page location do I have to create new files so it actually exists?
@jfigura I agree. That would be maddening in addition to confusing! The point we’re trying to make is that BP lets you set your password. That’s it. No email. Just login after you activate. When WMU sets the password, you have to wait and hope it wasn’t caught in spam and all the other associated issues. If you are receiving the email then something isn’t working correctly for you.
My own opinion is this way is much better (what are the chances you immediately forget the password you chose?) I hate it when I get generated passwords as I then have to go in and change them all over again.
