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I was able to sign up successfully as “raytest”.

One thing I encountered on my first try is it would redirect me to die-spammers.com.
I’m guessing you have a snippet in your .htaccess that does this.

You’re welcome
Going through this extra step prevents spammers’ stuff, if any, from appearing in our activity streams since almost of all of them don’t change display names

It could be that the emails are being marked as spam, or are being throttled by your server when you try to email them.

If the emails were not picked up by spam or junk mail filters, then your webhosting may need an extra plugin.

See: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/#register

and / or: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ (which has a useful debug feature)

If they were not picked up by your spam or junk mail filter then your webhosting may need an extra plugin.

See: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/#register

and / or: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ (which has a useful debug feature)

It’s not an easy fix. You need various plugins to block spam but as stated above people are earning pennies to sign up to blogs. Best defense is a strong offense. Do as much as you can. Spam is a fact of life when running social sites.

Install my BuddyPress verified plugin and you can easily manage your spam accounts. I’m adding a feature in the next update that will deactivate an account automatically if that account posts too much if they are too new.

Core BP committer Paul is adding askimet filtering to the activity stream. Everyone knows spam is an issue and it’s being dealt with as best it can.

I have tried everything A to Z to stop spam registration. They all work for a while, but as the site grows it is overwhelmed. I think David100351 is correct people fill out the registration and hand it to bot drones. If anyone has successfully got this under control for a big site let me know as it makes it more work than it is worth.
WordPress is brilliant with anti-spam but have not had the same results with Buddypress. I am thankful for all the work people have done with BuddyPress and know they will say it is an MU problem, but I just want to use BuddyPress without spending so much time fighting spam. Anyone else tried wangguard?

Hi @drwebstein

Try again WangGuard (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wangguard/)

We have added several detection systems to WangGuard server.

Now blocks 99’99% splog

I am having the same problem and I tried to do a test registration today. I have checked the spam folder to see if I get any activation key, but no we don’t, just the account activation mail. I activated my account using the link in the email.I was redirected to the activation key page too. Copy pasting the key from the activation link does not work. I tried to play a trick, I logged in using the username and pwd I used during the registration and it worked. I could open my profile page and upload avatar and add friends without entering the activation key. I don’t know why this is happening, and this can be a turn off for people trying to register on the site and something should be done about this. Thanks in advance for any helpful tips!

Deleting user will remove all activity, marking user as spammer will hide activity.

It’s actually pretty simple. It’s explained very briefly in the plugin’s installation page: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/installation/

Step-by-step:
1. Download the plugin to your computer.
2. Unzip it and open the file bp-export-users.php in a text editor (notepad, notepad++, gedit, etc.)
3. Find these lines:
$this->wp_fields = array(
'ID',
'user_login',
#'user_pass',
'user_nicename',
'user_email',
'user_url',
'user_registered',
#'user_activation_key',
'user_status',
'display_name',
'spam',
'deleted');
4. Add the names of any custom WordPress user fields you want in ‘inverted commas’ before the closing bracket ) making sure you put a comma in between the fields. E.g. ‘deleted’, ‘custom field’, ‘custom field2’)
5. Find the lines:
$this->bp_fields = array(
'Name',
'Telephone',
'Job Title',
'Organisation',
'Region',
'Primary Discipline',
'Grade',
'A bit about you',
'twitter',
'flickr');
6. Add the names of any custom BuddyPress (xProfile) fields you want to export in the same way.
7. Save the file.
8. Zip the folder.
9. Install the plugin in your WordPress installation using the upload method.
And you should be away.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them

The problem with recapcha is that armies of sad poor people are filling out spam registrations correctly and then passing them over to bots to do the dirty work.

Havent noticed any problems with the forum yet.

And yes Heymansok is a spammer.

heymansok is a spammer

Yes, the forum is definitely broken and it is very hard to navigate.

Know that when you open up your registration for anyone on single WP or WP multisite, whether you have BuddyPress or not, you will get spammers and sploggers. Only “closed” or by-invitation-only sites have escaped this curse completely.

There have been different solutions using plugins and techniques to prevent this but these bots and humans spammers/sploggers are relentless. Search online and you’ll get many answers/methods
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fighting-splogs/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/what-do-your-spam-signups-look-like/
http://www.wptavern.com/forum/wordpress-mu-multisite/2123-anti-spam-plugins.html
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anti-spam-for-multi-site-educationnon-profit?replies=7
http://wpfeed.com/2011/01/complete-list-of-anti-spam-plugins-and-solutions-for-wordpress/
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wangguard/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anti-splog/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-anti-spam/?topic_id=20669
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moderate-new-blogs/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
http://itscblog.tamu.edu/bad-behavior-wpmu-2-1-15-released/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

TireKicker, consider this your first warning: If you haven’t got anything nice to say, go somewhere else. Stop spamming this forum.

Several ways, but check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

To disable activations (I would strongly recommend against this – it’d let spammers access your site much more easily), put this code somewhere, maybe in bp-custom.php:

`add_action( ‘bp_core_signup_send_activation_key’, ‘__return_false’ );`

It is in bp_activity_recurse_comments() in bp-activity-templatetags.php line 647 ono. (In 1.5 we moved it out to a theme template, where it belongs).