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  • abossola
    Participant

    THis is a great plugin but I have some issues. Does anyone else have the problem where the user can sign up and post to the stream via “latest activity” and edit their profile BEFORE I can moderate in admin? Shouldn’t technically the user have ZERO privileges until approved? What happens is that all spam registrations, show in stream as added. I asked the plugin author in his forum but he is unresponsive. Anyone have this working properly? Thanks in advance!

    BP 1.1.3

    WP 2.8.6

    PHP 5.2.8

    #59968

    I deeply apologize if my previous post is a spam.

    I only followed BuddyPress Documentation in Improving Performance, and showed how it works with my websites.

    I found that the article is very-very useful (for server’s performance and users’ access). So, I want to share my experience in this forum to other BuddyPress lovers.

    Please forgive me if my previous post is a spam. Do I have to delete it?

    #59949
    Anton
    Participant

    This is quite a big problem. I deleted a user account but it didn’t delete the forum posts the user made. It only deletes his name in the feed but the content of the topic is still on the forum for the specific group. Now if it was a spammer(s) you would have to filter through all the groups/forums that they created and replied on topics and delete them. This will be quite tedious as you can’t search for the user in the database and delete all the topics related to that user because his name is deleted but not the content. You would have to manually filter through everything and I don’t think it will work.

    John James Jacoby – You mentioned

    “Which version of BP? This will be fixed in 1.2 as I think it’s just a missing or incorrectly named action. “

    Where is this action so that I can insert it into my BP 1.1.3 installation? Is it simple?

    #59946
    5603658
    Inactive

    Yes, no spam in this category please!

    haloid
    Participant

    Last time I posted an error with the default theme on the Members page if Friends is disabled. Now, enabling the Friends feature gave another error, this time it’s with mySQL.

    This error message shows up on the ‘Friends (0)’ tab within my user profile page:

    WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC LIMIT 0, 10' at line 1 for query SELECT DISTINCT u.ID as id, u.user_registered, u.user_nicename, u.user_login, u.user_email , um.meta_value as last_activity FROM wp_users u LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID WHERE u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND um.meta_key = 'last_activity' AND u.ID IN () ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC LIMIT 0, 10 made by include, require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, bp_has_members, BP_Core_Members_Template->bp_core_members_template, BP_Core_User->get_users WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC' at line 1 for query SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT u.ID) FROM wp_users u LEFT JOIN wp_usermeta um ON um.user_id = u.ID WHERE u.spam = 0 AND u.deleted = 0 AND u.user_status = 0 AND um.meta_key = 'last_activity' AND u.ID IN () ORDER BY FROM_UNIXTIME(um.meta_value) DESC made by include, require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, bp_has_members, BP_Core_Members_Template->bp_core_members_template, BP_Core_User->get_users

    I really am not sure what this is about. Is it to do with mySQL version that I’m running?

    #59934
    abcde666
    Participant

    yeah, but why do you spam this page ?

    #59802
    peterverkooijen
    Participant

    dfa327 (?) posted this on a splog fighting group wire:

    I’ve upgraded my entire site. So far no bad guys:)

    I’m up to buddypress 1.1.3 and wpmu 2.8.6.

    I got the following plugins to stop spam:

    http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/

    http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/invisible_defender/

    http://www.svenkubiak.de/nospamnx-en

    And a few other things to stop it, but I think those are working well above.

    Prior to the above I was getting hit by the minute!!!! Now none:)

    Haven’t tested them yet. Can’t vouch for them.

    #59534
    zambibo
    Member

    I have buddypress 1.1 installed and it seems to work perfectly except for spammers or sploggers or whatever..

    I downloaded WPMU-Signup-Captcha from WPMUDev and put the 3 files in the directories, just like you said.

    I don’t see it in the plugins section of the admin, and I still don’t have any captcha applied to new registrations.

    #8102
    abossola
    Participant

    I shouldn’t joke about spam as it is quite a problem with buddypress. I’ve tried so many things and I am out of ideas. In this Forum there are lots of suggestions but everyone still seems to be SOL or just hanging on.

    Where I have failed:

    BP Registration Options

    This would be great if it worked. But, it still allows users to register. Worse, is that they show up under Site Wide Activity on the home page for everyone to see that you are getting spam. It would be great if there was a fix for that. For anyone with lots of spam, start here, at least you can have some options: http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-registration-options/

    Not to get sidetracked here but this is a cool plugin I found for the Sitewide Activity Widget:http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/advanced-recent-site-wide-posts-widget

    With BP options I get several errors, which I will share since the Forum by the Plugin’s Author seems to not get much response. http://webdevstudios.com/support/forum/buddypress-registration-options/not-working-and-have-errors/ – Maybe we can work some things out here bc I am not the only one with problems with this plugin.

    SI Captcha

    http://wpmu.org/si-captcha-anti-spam-wpmu-and-buddypress-plugin-contest-entry/

    Well it works, or at least shows on the registration page. BUT, the crafty bots or slave laborists just fill in the codes and it’s a waste as well as an extra step for a user that is worthless.

    ReCaptcha

    Here is another great one.

    http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-spam-1

    But it only shows on the comments and NOT on the registration page itself. It’s been “modified” to work with BP, but I can’t get it to work. Again, slave labor can overcome this one quite easily. Think I am kidding about the slave labor: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20080311/human-captcha-breaking/

    Here is an entire group for spam lovers like myself:

    http://buddypress.org/groups/fighting-spam-splogs

    There are some good tips in that link above here are a few swings I took:

    http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/

    No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.

    http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/invisible_defender/

    Same again… No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.

    http://www.svenkubiak.de/nospamnx-en/

    Giving it a whirl now… I’ll keep you posted.

    http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree

    Same again… No dice for me. It seems to work for comments but not the registration page.

    Here is my favorite and WAS my most hopeful option:

    http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

    Guess what, still getting spam. Loads of it too. You would think a little core hacking would throw them off. Tsk tsk…. not these bots/humans. A little tip here for the changing of the slug and the code you add to the config files – Don’t forget to put the define statements BEFORE the STOP EDITING HERE LINE in the config.php. That had me and others scratching our heads for a while.

    How about this one:

    http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/signup-code

    Yeah why don’t we just go ahead and give the user a puzzle via snail mail and they can can send smoke signals once they get it. Or better yet just send them a link to Facebook and save everyone some headache. This MAY work but it is too much to ask of a user.

    Maybe a few checkboxes will throw the bots off:

    http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/terms-of-service

    Guess what? No dice.. still getting spam.

    .htaccess solutions:

    http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

    This one seemed hopeful. But no change, still getting spam.

    # 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

    You can try banning IPs but an .htaccess tidbit or by using most of the plugins above. But IPs are a dime a dozen to spammers and thats a total waste of time if you ask me.

    In Summary:

    Short of rewriting the registration page and my own plugin for spam I am at a loss. Any tips would be helpful. Hopefully this post will help some others with the same problem. Sorry for the sarcasm but it’s how I survive the insanity. :)

    Site: http://hoopsjones.com

    BP Version 1.1.3

    WP – 2.8.6

    #8092
    zageek
    Participant

    When I try to reactivate BP after automatically upgrading I get the following error:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_activity_install() (previously declared in /home/technope/public_html/arduino.za.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php:19) in /home/technope/public_html/arduino.za.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 52

    I don’t know if my other actions would have resulted in this, but before upgrading BP I update WPMU I did the following.

    I deactivated the BP plugin and all other dependant plugins. But before clicking “upgrade automatically” I went to go and mark sum blogs and users as spam, because I had an attack of the spambots again. Then when clicking automatically upgrade it upgraded without any problems but when it was time to activate the plugin then the above fatal error occured.

    My BP site is running with a modified version of the parent theme which has worked fine since before the previous update.

    I am running WPMU 2.8.6 and upgraded BP from 1.1 to 1.1.3 (I might have missed an upgrade because I haven’t had time to work on the site in the last month or two)

    #59472
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    A post has been deleted from this thread as it was little more than spam/advertising.

    #59409
    javicarrasco
    Participant

    Thank you all.

    Jeff I won’t try compression now because It could increase the CPU usage and this is our main problem. When it resolves we will do.

    We have around 6000 page views a day.

    Probably we have a very inefficient code somewhere but I don’t know how to find it. I reviewed several times the main blog theme and random files from the plugins but I couldn’t find it. I have just read about Xdebug, ¿Have you worked with It?

    We have a wildcard subdomain.

    I am not a server administrator but the VPS is fully managed and I think the guys managing it are good and we have migrated from another hosting company where we had the same problem.

    ¡We have cPanel and CentOS! ¿Could that bug be the problem?

    The spam is not a big problem, some comments but not too much.

    Thank you again

    #59393
    Andrea Rennick
    Participant

    Without being able to look and see multiple files both within the wordpress part and the server, the most we can do is guess.

    Some things I have seen crank the CPU:

    – a bad plugin with an off query

    – bad code in the theme (make the theme more efficient, revert to default theme to see if that’s the issue)

    – inappropriate server settings. Did you really put in a wildcard subdomain (if you use them) or do you have, say 20, listed. (Seen it. Wasn’t pretty.)

    – default server settings on high traffic sites. Preforks, child processes – all these can be streamlined.

    – an obscure bug with cPanel on CentOS boxes that create a memory leak

    – in rare cases a hardware failure

    and finally – being hit with spammers constantly. I have a couple older domains, and no matter where I host them, the simple fact they are “out there” mean they get hit with an INSANE amount of spam. Email, comments, splogs – all of it.

    Basically, you have to eliminate what it isn’t.

    how much traffic do you get? How big is the database?

    #59386
    Andy Peatling
    Keymaster

    The problem is when I mark a user as spam it is marking the codex as spam since they are an auto-member. It’s fixed now.

    #59302

    In reply to: Buddypress Spam

    fouad_pookeo
    Member

    Thank you!

    Here is a modified re-Captcha to work with BuddyPress.

    Hope this will help :)

    http://team.pookeo.net/2009/12/22/re-captcha-for-buddypress/

    #59167
    @mercime
    Keymaster

    Spam bin for –: nancybaby

    #59091
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    I’ve given up trying to add gmail-style folder tagging to the messages system in BP at the moment via a plugin; there’s not enough hooks to filter some queries. Might hack the core and do a patch

    #59090
    Henry
    Participant

    Why not just restrict emails so they can only be sent to one user at a time? Non-bot PM spammers probably won’t want to bother having to spam step by step.

    Any code for this in the meantime?

    #59081
    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    Check those lines in the error message for all files and debug.

    #59078
    Seobrien
    Participant

    This is strange, must have been hacked right? I wake up to find this sting at the top of our site with the template not working:


    https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/trying-to-stop-spam-email

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:17) in /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/deprecated/bp-xprofile-deprecated.php on line 436

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:17) in /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/what_would_seth_godin_do.php on line 124


    Add that it includes a link to this very forum?? What’s going on?

    I’ve got our developers looking at this thread but any other insight you can shed is most appreciated.

    #58924
    Xevo
    Participant

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo

    “A stupid or foolish person” Other words for “spammer”.

    #58921
    Jeff Sayre
    Participant

    You probably were marked, or at least your post was marked, as spam, as coming from a bozo. This is not an insult. It is the actual term that bbPress applies to suspected spammers. This has happened to me twice in the past.

    If this happens again, or seems permanent, you should contact Andy or jjj as whenever I log into bbPress admin, it does not show me the “bozo” members. So, I have no way of changing the status.

    But, since you are obviously posting right now, the issue was more than likely the system marking that particular post as probable spam. This is just a hunch.

    #58877

    In reply to: Buddypress Spam

    Andy Peatling
    Keymaster

    Probably because the spammers don’t recognize it as BuddyPress yet, don’t expect that to last long.

    #58865

    In reply to: Buddypress Spam

    jamesyeah
    Participant

    Since using th new 1.2 beta theme I havnt had a single spam signup!

    #58801
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    What we need, is a spam bin. I has an ideas. Let me mock it up.

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