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https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

Above plugin is the only plugin you will ever require to stop spam. Donate to plugin author if it stops spam on your site to keep the plugin alive

This plugin, though not updated for a very LONG time, still works.

Might be a LITTLE help in the ongoing battle against spam!

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-humanity

Security question/answer can produce a text-string, not just a sum, answer.

I’m the developer of BuddyPress Security Check. Unfortunately, it appears that spammers have found a way to complete the math sum, allowing them to register. This means that BuddyPress Security Check will probably not prevent bots from registering. It certainly isn’t generating fake signups though. Probably best to disable BuddyPress Security Check until I figure out how I can fix it and release a new update.

Thanks for the ping @johnjamesjaccoby

list what you’ve done to prevent spam

I *JUST* solved my issue by updating the outdated buddypress.css — but I don’t have the spam submit button issue. I’ll have to test that. I was getting double posts regardless everywhere a comment was contributed.

-Nick

@jconti – probably best as a separate plugin rather than bundling too much in to WangGuard.

A modernised version of https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-moderation/ would be ideal, as that plugin already does most of what’s required – it just needs lots of cleanup.

Admin settings interface:

Choose which content types should get a report/flag link (including things like status updates, comments, groups, forums, members, posts, articles, etc).

Customise link text, eg. “Report %username%” or “Flag %contenttype%” etc.

Decide how many reports something needs before an automatic response is triggered. Eg. if 5 people have flagged a comment as bad, person who made that comment should get a customised message and the message should optionally be forwarded to an admin.

The message I’ve set up in BP Moderation plugin looks like this:

%AUTHORNAME%,

Several users reported your content as inappropriate:
%CONTENTURL%.

A community moderator has been notified and will review the content. If it is found to be in violation of our site terms of use, your account will be removed.

%SITENAME%

Front-end UI:

Make HTML as consistent as possible, but compatible with the UI found for the specific type of content.

Ensure there is a specific class on all flag/report links, eg. class=”abuse-button”

Ensure there is a content type specific class on each flag link, eg. class=”abuse-type-comment”

Ensure there is a state specific class on all links, eg: class=”not-flagged” or class=”is-flagged” as applicable.

Use AJAX when user flags/unflags something to avoid page refresh.

Management Interface:

There should perhaps be two management interfaces, one for site admins in the WP backend, and one for forum/group mods in the front-end.

In the backend, see BP Moderation plugin for an example.

In the front-end, it would be nice if say a group admin/moderator would get messages about problem users in their group and be able to deal with it themselves (via front-end UI, I don’t want normal users of my site going in to WP backend). This would reduce workload of WP site admins.

Spam integration:

I assume this is something native to WP but it might be from a plugin, not sure. Anyway, in admin area when you go in to Comments or Topics, etc., and hover over content items you get a spam link in the links that appear:

It would be nice if when the auto-response message is triggered (as mentioned earlier – for example after 5 people report something) it could be marked as spam. When marked as spam, content is hidden from the front-end and moved to a ‘spam’ folder on the backend. This would mean if several people report something it is temporarily hidden while an admin looks in to it – if the admin thinks it’s ok they can un-spam it, otherwise they can delete it.

I have no idea which content types / reply types support this spam thing. It would also be worth checking with whoever implemented the spam thing to see what their future plans are?

Other Notes:

If the new plugin could provide hooks so that other plugins such as WangGuard could hook in to it, that would be ideal. For example, if WangGuard sees a blacklisted word in a comment it could automatically flag it or something like that.

It would be useful if there was a record kept of how many times a user’s content has been flagged enough times to trigger auto-responses. This would enable admins to spot repeat-offenders who are regularly annoying other end-users and factor that in to any subsequent decision making (eg. should I ban that user?).

It would be nice if there was a way to auto-suspend a member account if lots of their content is getting reported/flagged. This ties in with the count thing mentioned above. So if they’ve spammed groups and forums with spammy adverts, etc., and as a result other members have reported those things several times, the offending user would be auto-suspended if they have more than say 3 items moved to spam at any given time.

Another, not sure if it’s one already mentioned: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-tackle-spam-with-the-buddypress-spam-link-plugin/

Found some useful stuff here, but some of it is commercial :/ WangGuard in particular implements “report” links, but not sure to what extent (looks like it’s limited to activity stream?)

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Are you sure the email is failing to send? Could the email have arrived in the user’s spam mailbox?

Hi @boblebad

The extended profile in wp-admin is available to help you moderate profiles in the WP Admin area. One of the metabox is there to spam/unspam users.

You will see the link if :
– you’re not trying to “moderate” yourself.
– you have the capacity to moderate the user.

For instance:
– an admin shouldn’t be able to moderate a super admin
– a super admin should be able to moderate an admin
– a super admin shouldn’t be able to moderate himself.

There’s an enhancement ticket on BuddyPress trac about it.

Have you tried the WangGuard plugin? It’s supposed to be good stopping spam registrations.