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@ A Swede in Greece

You could try this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
But you’ll want the beta version as it fixes an issue with BuddyPress
http://www.blogseye.com/beta-test-plugins/

Also, you should look into installing ZBBlock.
http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php

The spam comment by “panlong” is still here after 2 weeks and 5 days…This says a lot about BuddyPress I think. We have started up a new site with BP, still not ready, but I think we’ll have to close it because of all spam members and spam activity, if we can not get help how to stop it. It’s UNBELIEVABLE how much spam we get. Three persons had made 100 membership each as well!!!
This Akismet plugin is for comments, but this is not so much needed as you can have comments with moderation.
I really think spam protection should be included from the beginning in the BudyPress plugin!
Another issue as well is that someone made a group without showing who created it. It doesn’t show up in the activity stream, even if I filter “created a group” either.

Something else, the page forums doesn’t show up. It says:
The forums component has not been set up yet.
What do I need to do?

I’ve found that BP Humanity helps with spam robots but not human spammers.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

For human spammers, you may need to approve each user.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

People can create any plugin they want and even charge for plugins. However, its in bad taste to find any thread related and post links to a paid plugin. This is what is generally called spam.

I want to point out that I tried your plugin and while it may do as advertised, the method of overriding a template file is bad. You need to learn how BuddyPress creates the user menu. It’s not the same as WP menus. Overriding a template file that places a WP menu into that space is not a good strategy.

@chiangmai – It could be because it’s not compatible with BP, I’m not familiar with that plugin but not all WP plugins are compatible with the BP registration process.

I’ve had success with Wanguard and asking a specific question. I’ve only had one spammer come through in the last month. I tried other CAPTCHA plugins before, and the CAPTCHA wouldn’t show in IE.

Activity doesn’t have a “pending moderation/approval” concept like comments does. Right now, it’s either published or spam.

Hi @bojan85,

add this code to your functions.php file

function bp_admin_is_my_profile( $my_profile ){
global $bp;

if( ( $bp->current_component == BP_MESSAGES_SLUG )
&& current_user_can(‘manage_options’) ) return true;
else return $my_profile;
}
add_filter(‘bp_is_my_profile’, ‘bp_admin_is_my_profile’, 1);

but i think is not good idea to read the messages of members , try to use anti spam plugins.

lol how ironic that a spammer shows up on a spam thread 1 year old

can the mods please remove the above french spammer and ban the user panlong

In my case i’ve found that mails were sent but classified as spam.
Unfortunatelly some mail servers are blacklisted by some ISP for spamming reasons.
I’m looking for solve this problem because people that want to register in my site are unable to receive properly the activation code sent by email.
For now i change the output message shown in the registration process, alerting people to check into the spam folder, but hope to solve it in a better way

I added it in a comment on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4469, but I can do a separate one for the activity button if you like.

Stephanie, can you post an enhancement ticket about this on Trac?
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Login with the same credentials you use on this site.

My spammer problem is so bad this week that I sat down and figured out how to do this. Here’s the mini plugin I wrote. It restores the “Mark as Spammer” link in the admin bar and adds a “Spammer” button to the activity stream: https://gist.github.com/3815688

YES PLEASE. I’ve just marked about thirty spammers, and I’m not done yet. It takes longer now that the link in the admin bar doesn’t immediately mark people as spammers, but takes me to the profile where I have to traverse the whole page to reach the checkbox and then submit the form.

marked resolved is good, closing not necessary unless we get spam or off topic comments.

you could try:

http://buddydev.com/plugins/one-click-mark-spammer-for-buddypress/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-verified/

Thanks shawn, not a spammer but someone making a request for a game ala Facebook. I think something got lost in translation.

@mercime @hnla Spammer Alert!

@umagokhale

CAn you not spam the forum with multiple posts to the same page on your site. It is noted that:

– The content is not available unless you either join your site at a price or share the link to the page on ones social networks

– The content is not yours but taken from elsewhere but without due attribution (please feel free to correct that if not true)

I’m removing the posts as they appear to simply be an attempt at SEO gaming using this support forum.

If you have a problem with that decision please feel free to contact one of the core developers.