@djpaul
I’m aware that users can turn it off.
Let me explain again.
I have a vbulletin database and am converting it over to bbpress.
When doing so, I get notifications for EVERY @ in the last 3 years. That’s several thousands of emails going out and spamming users.
I need to turn it off so I can test the database conversion and I don’t want to spam my thousands of users.
Should I report this on the trac?
@shanebpdev
Thank you for replying. Looks like I will need to do one of your suggestions.
@limitx3m
Yup, spamming your own users is not good.
How are you importing to your database ?
It may not be feasible for your situation, but one way to handle this is to import in two passes.
In the first, import everything except email addresses.
Use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/
and give everyone the same email addy – an email addy that functions and that you control.
In the second pass, swap that addy with the members real email address.
This is also useful on dev sites, that use real member data, when testing anything that can generates emails.
I can’t turn emails off for the “@limit / mention.
This is extremely troubling when importing a large database. Users are getting spammed. Thank you
New members are not getting a email to confirm registration to my site. I’ve checked Spam mailboxes to see if it going there – it’s not. My hosting co. says yahoo (from a registration i did today as a test) got the email too.
My email logs show the emails going out as well.
Any ideas?
hi @notpoppy,
no it’s not possible. WP post comments are not forum discussions.
And the BP included bbPress forum as no settings for such.
If you use BP 1.6.x with the bbPress 2.2.4 plugin for a standalone forum, you can plug bbPress, but this cannot be done if you have group forums.
If you use BP 1.7 and bbP 2.3, every thing becames possible, but you have to wait a little, both are still in beta…
That said, each WP comes with Askimet, the theoretical nec plus ultra of comments anti-spam, whitch protect the comments, the activity stream, etc
Search on this forum, you’ll find many discussions about spam and what to do/use….
Even if no definetly solution exist.
@golfer300 this forum is for BuddyPress-powered sites. Please point to BP site, otherwise your post will be marked as spam. Thank you.
@hnla I suspected that this was probably a WP-Engine issue and that there wouldn’t be much you guys could do. I came here out of hope rather than expectation in case someone on here had experienced a similar issue and had some tips or advice.
With regards to the number of users there are a large number of fake/spam user accounts (I estimate 10,000+) that were registered on older versions of WordPress/bbPress before we upgraded and switched to CloudFlare and WP-Engine which has reduced spam considerably. We have also gradually been deleting obvious fakes but as you can appreciate this is a laborious task.
WP-Engine have refused to temporarily increase the resource limits to see if that enables the BuddyPress installation to complete. At this point I think I’ll try downloading a copy of the site and see if I can run the BuddyPress install on a local LAMP/WAMP setup and allocate 1GB+ to PHP memory.
@shanebp
In the activity stream it does block that members activities as well but it shows this message at the top of the activity stream:
activity – where_sql:
WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.hide_sitewide = 0 AND a.type != ‘activity_comment’ AND a.user_id NOT IN (1) AND a.secondary_item_id NOT IN (1)
Also when you press the load more activity button it outputs the same message every time the load more button is pressed.
Once you get these errors debugged this will be a great contribution. Thanks again!
There were a lot of spam posts that had to be dealt with this morining, it’s possible your post got inadvertently moved along with them, apologies, having it looked into and restored if possible.
Are they plugin to allow me to set my site up with a daily set time maintenance mode option,
Let say between 2am-6am so I get less spam.
FYI a lot of those “bots” are humans no perfect solution exists some amount of human intervention will always be required to deal with spamming and splogging but…
i have been having a pretty good experience with WangGuard they are currently blocking about 90 to 95% of our spam registrations.
I’ve been reading these forums for weeks trying to find a solution to all the spam registrations I’m getting on my site. Keep in mind that I haven’t opened it to the public yet. It is closed and the registrations are closed, but still they are getting in and creating accounts. I decided to do some troubleshooting to see where they are getting in and this is what I found out so far:
1. When I close registration still they get in and create member accounts and Groups in which they inject their spam. 2. I started to turn off some of the buddypress features one at a time, such as the forums and the groups, and the registrations stopped. It’s been several days without spam registrations. I turned on open registrations and still there’s no registration. I turned on Forums and now they are coming back.
Conclusion: they must be getting through the forum, since I understand, uses a version of BBPress. Now I have to get a solution to protect the forums and groups if I want these features on our sites.
any solutions out there?
HI i need some help finding some plugins for advertising, memberships, anti spam
@vegaskev @ubernaut you both are certainly not marked as spammers or else you won’t be able to post in the forums at all 🙂 vegaskev, do edit your profile and change name to something other than your username
Also, the original topic sucked. I’ve changed it. It looked like spam, please don’t give us more work.
@amanor check in Pages > All Pages if you have a page named Register. If none, then go to Pages > Add New and add the title e.g. “Join Us” (small anti-spam protection) and Publish.
Go to Settings > BuddyPress > Pages and select Join Us page for Register and Save settings.
Go to Appearance > Menus and add “Join Us” to custom menu.
I’m definitely not a spammer. I ask questions and answer questions on here….lol
there was some post @jjj made about having a different nickname from your shortname to avoid that but i think i might heard that no longer applies. you might have also been flagged as a spammer somehow, possibly, same thing happened to me once. 😛
@hnla I just installed BP Force Profile but I don’t think that was the problem.
The problem is the back end in wordpress. When a profile field is filled out it is not showing up on the back end under the users tab in wordpress.
I get the username but that is all. Can I view a registered users info somewhere?
Say I register and filled out the First name and Last name field. When I go look at users in wordpress those fields are not filled in? I just want to make sure people put in there full names. Otherwise its hard to tell if its a real person or just another spam bot.
thanks.
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Sorry for constant spam…
Plugin is unstable. Works for 5min than names turn to normal, than again it starts to work. I have no idea what kind of situation is that.
Still in need what I’ve asked in OP.
Thanks for the feedback! We get hit with spam, too, though perhaps we manage to clear it before you see it.
The tighter BuddyPress integrates with bbPress the more we need bbPress support over here. To be honest, there really isn’t a lot of support over there and there’s a good chance people here could jump in with answers.
A lot of the issues are hard to blame specifically on WP, BuddyPress or bbPress. We need a central place to sort everything out. And the more people involved the better.
Also, its disheartening to see the bbPress get 3 pages of spam every night. I think the credibility of BuddyPress/bbPress would be improved with a single site handling the support. It would be much more efficient. 🙂
no worries captcha doesn’t really work well enough to prevent the deluge of spammers/sploggers in my experience i have been having a good experience with WangGuard for user regs and Akismet works like a charm for comments but you can just turn both registration and commenting off site wide if you don’t want additional plugins.
Is it possible to apply the Discussion Settings I have set up for commenting on my WordPress site to what people can post in the Buddypress forum?
I have a list of spam-related and abusive words in the Comment Moderation for the Discussion Settings which helps keep unwanted comments out of the blog. I would like to apply these to the Buddypress forum but it seems you can’t.
Is there a plugin for this? Is this something that could be considered for a future version of Buddypress?