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Hello,
registration process has nothing to do with BP, it’s WP stuff. For some technical answers to your question, be inspired by reading here:
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/open-source-security/top-5-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them.htmlTo avoid robot resgistration, there is nothing definitve to do at this time. But to get sure you don’t get a robot in your user list, you can add a mandatory field to your registration via custom profile fields.
For example, “city”. Because this field is custom, no robot will fill it correctly. And most will not fill it at all. Each subscription with “doe” as city name or empty city field can be banned and/or erased from your DB. This will calm down spam activities for a while. The price of this is a constant admin work. But consider that a daily managed site is lesser spammed than a site with randomised webmastering each 31th february… And a site with 50 000 unique visitors will be more attacked that a 70 hits/day site. Just the price of glory, nothing to do with buddypress. [exit]
We’ve never been able to figure it out, partly due to the lack of information we could gather from bug reports like this. Discovering there’s a user_id=0 is new info and is very helpful.
Can you remember if there was any special details about the user who owned this piece of profile data? Did you delete the user? Was it marked as spam before deleting? Any more details appreciated
You’ve got both options covered there.
Firstly i would most definitely implement an email sign up form on your site anyway. Link it up with an autoresponder so that people receive a nice email, or sequence of emails from you when they sign up, so that they build trust and open your emails in future.
In terms of importing your list. When you do that, Mailchimp, Aweber (who ever you go with) records how the list was implemented.
It’s perfectly allowed, BUT if you get spam complaints they will ask you to remove the entire list, or close your account.
I had this once, where I had a list from a trade show I exhibited at.
First mailshot went out to 2000 people, not ONE complaint.
I thought cool, I’ll drop another one a few weeks later.
About 6 weeks later I sent out another mail (only 2 mails in 6 weeks), and 11 spam complaints.
Shows how unpredictable it is. Mailchimp asked me to remove the list or leave.
HAD that list all been double opt-in i.e. they sign up, get a confirmation which they then have to click a ‘yes sign me up’ link on, then Mailchimp wouldn’t have been bothered. We simply cleanse the list of the complainers.
Email marketing and list building is a very tricky business, as you always get the idiots reporting spam which ISN’T spam. This is either thorough laziness or through ignorance of not knowing what that ‘spam’ button does in their email client.
Most people think it just deleted the email, not knowing it actually sends a complaint to their ISP, which thus gets forwarded on to the client that sent it.
You could import the list, send out what looks like an email confirmation link to sign them up to your newsletter that then actually migrates them to another list.
That’s possible, then they WOULD actually be opted in.
You could only send that ONE email to the list you import though, and even then you may get a few complaints.
Other than that, create a blog post that you could make members aware of asking them to sign up, or direct them to the widget sign up form you are implementing.
Not gonna happen overnight but the quicker you dod it, the quicker your list builds.
Good article. Thank you, Roger. But I’m still wondering what the actual harm is, and do real people actually go to these Member pages to see this junk? (and yes, I Googled for this part
