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Hi all,

I’m the developer of FunCaptcha and we’ve just updated it to include full BuddyPress support. We’ve tested it on the latest version of BuddyPress and WordPress, as well as various earlier releases.

Just wanted to let you know that CAPTCHAs don’t all need to be painful! Users complete our FunCaptcha faster than other CAPTCHAs, with fewer frustrating failures and no typing. They work on all browsers and mobile devices, using HTML5 with a fallback to Flash. Visually impaired users can complete an audio challenge.

We have big plans for updates, new games and further additions to FunCaptcha. I’d love to hear from you guys what you want in it, how we can improve it for you, and help make your BuddyPress and FunCaptcha experience as enjoyable as possible!Please check us out!

Thanks,
Kevin Gosschalk
info@swipeads.co

1. spam messages!

I really like this plugin for managing spam registrations and comments:

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

Signing up for an Akismet key will also help with spam comments, as would requiring someone to create an account and login before doing so (in Settings: Discussion).

2. am using bp on my 3rd blog. somehow users can not delete their’s account.

You can enable this in: Settings: BuddyPress: Settings (tab): Allow registered members to delete their own accounts

Spam!

You may get a fair bit of it, search the forum for topics on prevention.

@dasped First, glad you resolved the first issue pm your own 🙂

Second, by default you should as keymaster and even moderator, edit, close, stick, merge, trash or spam forum posts.
– Which kind of forum are you encountering the problem in? Group or Sitewide Forums?
– Did you follow the updated instructions for setting up Group/Sitewide Forums at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

how to modify the admin bar

@ebizdude That’s too wide an area to cover. What specifically do you want to change in the admin bar?
– If it’s WordPress-related, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
– If it’s related to BuddyPress links to profile menus https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/

also when people registerting the activation email is not coming. how does one recticfy that

You have to find out through some tests whether email is not being sent from your installation or whether the email just goes to user’s spam folder.

Yeah man,it’s probably spam..i had this problem then i activated a captcha plugin and i hoped for the best..it still didn’t work..so,i activated the honeypot trap.and that actually worked..just search for the buddypress captcha plugin

in your word press dashboard on the “users” page you can select ‘page options’ near the top right and then show 200 results per page to make it easier to go through the users. I had this problem with a site and I would just ‘select all’ and then go through and un-select users that I knew were real people. . . Spam Sucks. . . Good Luck!

it works fine for me but it doesn’t catch all spam i think it’s still learning how to tell whats spam or not when it comes to activity. it’s not perfect for comments either but probably catches about 99% or so. i’d say the number with activity spam is still probably under 50% at least as far as i can tell.

Would there be a way to make all activity spam by default? Would that have repercussions with akismet and blacklisting – if it could even be done simply enough? The ideal would be to send all activity to moderation by default, but this idea might do until a better solution can be found.

Hi,

this is a code I use personally, but requires you to edit the bp-groups-actions.php, sorry i do not know how to write function.

open buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-actions.php

around line 150

After this line:
`do_action( ‘groups_group_create_complete’, $bp->groups->new_group_id );`

Add this code:
` $to = “YOUREMAILADDRESS”;
$name= bp_core_get_username(bp_loggedin_user_id());
$groupname = bp_get_new_group_name(bp_get_new_group_id());
$groupurl = bp_get_group_permalink( $bp->groups->current_group );
$subject = “$name created new group $groupname”;
$body = “$name created new group $groupname, visit $groupurl”;
mail($to, $subject, $body);
`

That’s it, when a user hit the Finish create group button this code will send to the email stated address with the newly created group link. use at your own risk. Hope someone better can create a theme function or a plugin for this.

This is needed to keep track of newly created groups to alert you if spammers are creating groups to spam.

Hope it helps.

@tuxkapono @tux-kapono Your account was blocked because: a) you posted a link to site which had numerous pop-ups when I checked it out and b) the link you posted had no direct relevance to the topics where you added the link. Those of course led to the conclusion that you were a spammer along with 7-8 other spammers I blocked around that time. We try to keep the forums as clean and free from spammers and spam as much as possible.

Given that you came back to explain your side, I have unblocked “Tux Kapono” and you may resume using it to post in BP forums.

@resom That’s right.

Have those who have not “received” activation emails checked their spam folders? Unfortunately, that happens even without BP activated.

It happens with certain webhosts. Determine whether it’s your installation which is not sending the email or whether your users are not receiving the email for some reason or another (possibly in spam folder?)

Check out “BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails” section in this page https://codex.buddypress.org/user/faq/

BP Registration Options.

I think those users are spam. What usernames do they have?

`I have group creation disabled and users have to fill in a form to have us manually create their group.`
The spammer might have hacked into the Site/Super Admin account. Backup database. Curious what’s the username used by the hacker? Check activity of said “member” and remove/delete anything created by said member then delete from users. Do you still have a username “admin”? Then create another username for your admin account and then demote the “admin” to suscriber in wp-admin or remove completely.
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

Hey try use this plugin Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin, is good and is aggressive. It can check for too fast registration (bot filled up those field fast), HTTP_REFERER, disposable email address and much more…

Most of them hunt for your register page slug /register/, try to noindex this page or change the slug.

here’s another plugin made by @imath which can help to wipe oup defect/unwanted/sleeping users.
https://github.com/imath/bp-wake-up-sleepers
Still in Beta but works good on 3.5.1/1.6.4