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Hi

I have a whole host of different security plugins, including Aksimet (free), bad behavior, IP blacklist cloud & Wordfence security and these at least manage to prevent anonymous topic & unmoderated posts.

Somehow some bastards, for lack of a better word always manage to create a group with long spam descriptions every 1 – 2 weeks. I do not remember Statcounter registering these visits, including the latest, which makes me think the posts are probably or mostly by bots.
The problem these created groups are not moderated making worry some very bad stuff could easily get posted.

How can one effectively prevent this?

Thank you in advance.

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentleman,

I have two questions. How do I add a captcha to my user registration page to prevent bots from spamming my website?
I currently have the following Plugins installed: Buddypress, Facebook Link.

Conceivably, I also would like to do is this:
When someone creates an account, they link it to their facebook. Thereafter, the account details from their facebook is added to current profile
Its pretty much the same idea as what Tinder does when registering and using
http://www.gotinder.com/

Not sure if a plugin exist, if one does, that kicks ass. If not, does anyone know where i can find a good tutorial explaining, step by step, how to do this.

Thanks,
GalenL

So I have looked all over the web and found multiple ways that are supposed to work but I am still having links become automatically linked. I am running BuddyPress Version 1.7.3.

I have tried:


function remove_xprofile_links() {
remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 9, 2 );
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'remove_xprofile_links' );


and


remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 50 );


And have tried in plugins/bp-custom.php and in my theme’s functions.php file but no joy.

Looks like things have changed over the years and that plugins to do this that worked for earlier BuddyPress versions have disappeared also.

When someone enter something under Activity (under their profile) and post an update, the contents of that update will have URLs links automatically, something we want to do to discourage the actual humans (not bots) who are spamming our site.

Thanks!