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Hi @orbitor

How you said, WangGuard works great for protect your website and with the Wizard you can check many of the old ones. But every website is different and WangGuard knows many old Sploggers, but not all of them. WangGuard is only  1 year an 11 month old (today).

The first year blocked 750.000 sploggers, and in the in the next 11 months,  5.000.0000 sploggers. You can see that its growth is exponential.

About your question if there is a tool for check the humanity of your old users… I’m sorry but only WangGuard. WangGuard is the only tool out there to check users

Kind regards

About spam registrations – I have already answered here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/thousands-of-spam-subscribers/#post-151777

@chouf1 Where the heck did this come from ! Awesome 🙂 Cheers

I use this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
And this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/
The first one catches spam. The second – those that the 1st one overlooked.
From that time – no spam at all.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

What I use is buddypress captcha for registration, works like a charm!

I think the problem is that they never get a sent an email with their account details (username and password) when they join.

You mean they don’t receive an activation email? They should already know what their username and password is because that’s required when you register.

Have you checked whether it’s your site that’s not sending the activation email or whether it’s their email service provider (gmail,yahoo,hotmail,aol,etc) that’s blocking your email and/or sending it to user’s spam folder?

hi @mindyjoy,

@boonebgorges did a nice plugin a few time back  who exactly does what you ask for.
Unconfirmed ! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

i use it to remove automatic spammers from my db but you can also resend activation e-mails or do it mnually (need a trusted relation to e-mail address and.or username i guess).

Does anyone have a solution for this? I am facing the same problem. Some new users are not receiving the activation email. It is not going to their spam folders. I estimate about every 5th user does not get the email. I can tell who doesn’t receive the email because their Forum Role is blank. Is there a way to generate and re-send the activation email, or manually activate these users? Thank you.

Here’s an alternative that makes the polling more social

It’s one I’ve developed after someone requested it on top of my Facebook polling plugin

http://epicplugins.com/epicplugingallery/wordpress-social-polling-plugin/

[ Please do not put more than one link to your paid plugin, otherwise all will be deleted as spam ~~~ Mercime ]

I don’t understand the difference between users and members. We have thousands of spam users and it’s not possible to mark them as spam either when we delete them. It feels like they have a negative effect on our site, but maybe I can just leave them there?

Most are using this field to SPAM with any idea’s on how to remove it?

I had the same issue and I want to share here what I did to make activation emails reach the inbox (especially in Gmail):
– added SPF and DKIM DNS records in order to certify that the e-mails are legitimate, especially if your host uses a third party service to send them, or they get sent from a different domain
– changed the default “from” e-mail address and “from name” fields using a plugin. I used WP-Mail-SMTP plugin that also allows me to use my own e-mail address (like a google apps one), but there are plenty others that you could use

After these steps the e-mails were still being marked as spam by Gmail and the only thing left was to edit the activation e-mail content itslef. Thank you Paul for adding the option in Welcome Pack plugin. I enabled “Customise the emails sent by BuddyPress, either in plain text or rich HTML versions.” I then edited the content and subject by adding more text and there it was, activation e-mail wasn’t marked as spam anymore.

I hope this helps someone else as I spent quite some time making it work 🙂

I had problems with WangGuard as well. If you’re site is for a invites-only, you could always try using the “Easy Invitation Codes” plugin. There’s a nice BP-compatible version in the developer section: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/baw-invitation-codes/developers/ (The link just under “Other Versions”.) It works great and is simple to set up.

After installation, all you’d have to do is create a code and send it to the people you want to join. When they register, all they’d need to do is add the invite code, like “ARTROCKSSPAMSUCKS”, into an added field and you’re set.

There is one tiny glitch – but don’t panic! The altered plugin still connects to the regular WordPress plugin, so it will tell you that an upgrade is available after installation. It’s a lie! I did a cheat-fix to get rid of that notification by opening the bp-eic.php file and changing the version number from 1.0 to 1.0.4. And, while writing this message, I decided to try and alert the author of the conflict.

sounds like maybe akismet didn’t like the format of your post and thought it was spam same thing happened to me the other day.

have you considered akismet?

quote from @SeriousDon

users are submitting their info and the register page just simply reloads with no error.
created a locally hosted test server ………. got the website to function 100%

Have had similar experience but in the reverse

created a local site (though with a lot of customization) all well locally with registration 100%

put it up on a host and registration page just reloads with no errors.

Have no great experience but could it be version differences of php, or mysql etc. ???
or more likely as modemlooper suggests left over tables from a discarded plugin maybe a disable or auto activation plugin.

I think (though will not name as i’m not 1000% certain) one wp managed hoster had a reports of a similar type problem from a few clients and they eventually fixed it.

Stumped! there are a few results on google search terms —> buddypress register registration reload reloads refresh and a buddypress ticket (now closed) #4477

At first all registration was disabled regardless of theme.

Then as suggested in one of the google results I removed an anti spam addition from htaccess and i got back registration in bp default and the other themes.

but no registration yet for the theme that “caused” the problem

Also consider the honey pot method. It catches automated spammers but not human spammers.
https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot

For human spammers you almost need to approve each user request. Which is a pretty big barrier to entry, I think. I’ve used this plugin to do that:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

Ok, I did what your asked me to do last night. I deactivated all the plugins and then activated the BuddyPress default theme. I get the same results. I sign up to be come a new member and I do not get the confirmation email. I have attempted to sign up with a number of email accounts that I have and nothing is going into my spam folders or my inbox.

I found this tips and guide.

Kill and remove buddypress spam registration

It works perfectly