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@gabequer this is what you need:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/avh-first-defense-against-spam/

i had no spam issues at all.

I like WangGuard and Bad Behavior plugins – not together, but they both helped my installs.

wangguard might be helpful in cleaning out your existing users as well even if you decide not to keep it.

You need to stop them now, as best you can and delete all members you have in there. A new BP site I have has had over 29,000 spam stopped in the last month. Do not forget WordPress is under a bot attack at the moment.

Firstly, Switch off that any one can register on your site.

Clean out all the spam members. Delete them.
Install Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin from WordPress.Org (Saved my life)
Install Limit Login Attempts
Install capachi plugin and set it up for it to be on when people are registering.
Change your admin name, if it is admin.

Switch back on that people can register on your site.

These posts might help you as the same thing happened to me.
Here

Second Post

Sadly this is one of the common major annoyance, Spammers have found many ways to “sneak” in and in general make pests of themselves. There are plug-in solutions and other ways to keep the pests out. Right now I’m testing out a plug-in named: BP Registration Options It adds a warning box to the Dashboard that appears at the top of pages while you’re in Dashboard mode. If intercepts new registrations and lists some information about where their coming from AND the IP address. You then can manually check these IP addresses out on various Black List sites of known spammers or just do a simple Google Search which will show many as spammers. You get 3 options, either approve, then they see the registration screen, deny, or ban, which adds the list them is ban forever list from THAT IP address.

Hi Ryan, I tested the plugin but went with a different option (email domain blocking) due to the spammers being able to bypass every other tool used, including honeypot traps.

I noticed a bug in the beta version I downloaded in the early hours of this morning (v1.4.3): the tracking message wouldn’t click-off no matter which option I chose or who clicked it.

Thank you for putting the plugin together. We might give it a try again later.

An interesting post thanks for sharing i would say that i would tend to disagree with some of the basic assertions he makes mainly about the requirement of linking to a wp.com account and also i would note that it seems that he does in fact use it himself but just not for every client.

Anyway not trying to go too far off topic and again i do appreciate your sharing your opinion on that as well as you work towards fighting spam.

ok thanks for the update but now you have me wondering when you say:

To each his own. I strongly dislike Jetpack. Myself and many others recommend people against using it.

is that just due to development reasons or is there another reason you don’t like it?

i would admit that there are components i don’t like (easy enough to disable selectively) but it is the only decent way to provide stats to content contributors without giving each of them GA access (as well as other various other things that seem to only be possible with JP).

Anyway just curious never heard anyone say they had anything against jetpack before.

@ryanhellyer Because I make use of BuddyPress I installed “Spam Destroyer version 1.4.3 beta” plugin.
The immediate consequence was that any attempt to post or create a new topic ended in “ERROR: Your reply cannot be empty.”
I had to disable it for now.
I found no setting for this plugin and I agree to help you test it. Be aware I’m not a developer, just a WP regular user.
How do we proceed?

gotcha not to try and make you explain why or anything since i probably wouldn’t understand the answer anyway but a LOT of wordpress sites do use JetPack i pretty much consider it a prerequisite for any site that wants traffic.

Thanks for all your hard work in the good fight against spammers and sploggers though!

so i read this plugin is not currently compatible with Jetpack is that correct? thanks!

whoohoo! awesome work

btw there’s spam comments on the bpdevel blog

@synaptic,

such a plugin already exist for buddypress. Give a try:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-moderation

The’re also some fix on the support forum

You need to style that, layouts as such are for the end user to build, the old-ish bp-default had one particular layout that best suited all requirements, if you wanted something different you needed to create that as a theme.

The grid layout style therefore needs to be built, the markup is there and can be styled, there is even a guide to doing this now, by iirc wpmu on pollyplumbers blog.

Spam isn’t something that’s going to be tackled by the core to any great extent WP relies on plugins to combat this- look for a thread on this forum asking for testers for a new spam plugin that is looking very promising.

@pealo86 check this out as well https://buddypress.org/support/topic/seeking-testers-for-spam-destroyer/

@binutz re time active -> use UTC +/- in Settings rather than city name and change to BP Default theme. Are you using a cache plugin by any chance? If so, which one?

re members count -> What do you mean that it’s wrong? Is this an installation which had registered members prior to installing BuddyPress? Then members have to log in at least once to be “counted”

re users’ avatars missing -> You mean the only the mystery man is showing up or that even the mystery man is not showing up? Are you developing locally or online? Change to BP Default theme, are the avatars showing up?

re email activation issue -> Are you sure that your installation is sending those activation emails in the first place? Or, have your users checked in their email spam folders? Where are you hosted?