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Have you tried the spam plugin, Bad Behavior? I can’t remember if I read about it on the Support forums here, or if I just Googled “Buddypress Spam” and read a recommendation of it on another site, but it seems to be working for us since we started using it a few weeks ago. I haven’t found any issues with how it functions with Buddypress, either, so far.

We had our developer override the capital letter issue, which completely resolved our issues with sign-up. Now, if only we can keep more of those spam users out! But that’s an issue for a different thread .

If you’re running BP 1.6+, you don’t need Labs for activity stream spam. It’s built in to 1.6, and if you use Akisment, that will protect Activity stream spam, too.

BP verified user plugin. Hit the spam option. Then put it as not verified to reactivate account

@newpress Please don’t make these sorts of posts, this is spam and we do not need it re-focussed on. Both Paul and I have asked you previously to improve your behaviour on this forum, please observe these requests as it isn’t going to be asked again.

tbh thought I had locked this thread – will do so now.

“They said they were
hoping to show off “that
wow factor, “WordPress Opensource Wonder”

this is not spam. This is rather an encrypted message. Buddypress is still stuck in 1,********s. No major release recently. Its 2.0 phobia

“The audience liked
their number, which ended
with all of the guys dancing in trays of water”

“Sharon liked it. Howie liked it but said it was “one-dimensional.”

“Howard thought they “did well,” but also said it was “deja vu” – we had seen it all before or we were mesmerized”

Hi,
WP is promoting his own software Akismet against spam, so i’m affraid that it’s not tomorrow they will develop another antispam system.
i’m using wp-ban and some htaccess rules (very efficient IMO)

`# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*your_site.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L] (->URL to redirect spammers to)
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer mrtoday.net spammer=yes (-> identified spam site)
Order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=spammer (-> some IP’s to ban )
deny from 78.47.125.158
deny from 203.186.54.21
deny from 174.139.12.106
deny from 70.32.38.85
# Blocking access from libwww-perl, and blocking urls that include “=http:” to eliminate bot attacks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} www-mechanize [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(wp-login.php|/wp-admin/) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)=http [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION`

Take care by copy/pasting above code. Notices between (-> bla….) must be retrieved !
IP’s and sites to be blocked can be found in your server log files.
You can also consult some antispam sites giving the latest spam marked sites like http://urlvoid.com/

Use spamtrawller its great

@jesse_james It would be great if this option to ban certain domains was built into the core. Maybe make a ticket on trac. Not sure they will approve it but it never hurts to request it because spam seems to be a constant issue with BP and having the ability to ban a entire domain that is famous for enabling spammers from registering would help save a lot of long term grief.

yeah its called ban hammer can exclude specific emails or entire domains

What version of buddyPress are you using?

For your info, If the emails you used to test with was AOL it probably won’t work. Maybe someone else may know why. AOL used to work with BP registration emails but there was some change they made that filters out BP registration emails from being received even in the spam folder. Even facebook doesn’t like AOL email addresses anymore. Try yahoo, and gmail instead.

That “activation number” warning usually means she clicked on the link twice and it is already activated. Just tell her to try logging in. BP should really change the default text on that.

I just installed this plug in and have used it to purge some spammers. I am impressed. I have had no problems. So I give it a thumbs up. Well done!