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What do you mean by deleted manually?

If you mark the account as a spammer, they can’t log in with that ID/email again. What’s the goal in deleting them?

2. for example ,if you set your profile as : just friends, then you have control of your activity stream and anything posted on your wall.
if your friends spam you, you just remove them from friends.
simple as that.
also users must have a option that allow them to mark as spam or delete spam. it works on FB.

1.better looking default theme( I’m willing to contribute a minimalist theme with an awesome option panel )
2.privacy settings( may help prevent spam )
3.activity stream on profile pages should have better order like (if I’m looking at my profile first thing I should see is my friends activity) also re-share on activity and post to wall as fb would be cool
4.forums not attached to groups

I also had this problem and went through a deep analysis.

The issue stems from the fact that Bluehost requires that the email be sent from an account that exists on the system. They do this as an anti-spam technique and they require this even if the mail is originating from within the system.

Enter WordPress. PHP uses a mail function mail(). WordPress maps this to wp_mail() and pretty much everyone uses the wp_mail for the plugins within WordPress. This makes sense as it allows customization of WordPress mail at a relatively low cost of performance.

Enter Buddypress. Buddypress places a filter upon wp_mail() such that all email originate from the user ‘noreply’ on the domain such that end users don’t reply to the notifications. Sounds cool.

But remember that Bluehost does not allow email to be sent from non-accounts and that’s the catch.

Using a foreign SMTP does not work for Bluehost blocks those ports. Using local SMTP will work but you need to provide the right setup and credentials. Finally, using mail-from plugin works since it filter’s the Buddyhost filter changing the email from address back to a valid Bluehost email account.

Hopefully, this explains what is happening and you can choose which strategy you want to use to fix the problem.

@psivait

re spam: I would do a little research as there have been some lengthy posts on this question /issue here so dig those up and give them a good read, there are plenty of steps you can implement to reduce spam, however be aware that there isn’t much you can do about human spammers and they account for a good deal of time wasting these days especially if you allow for blogs to be created at signup (something I don’t personally think a good idea).

As for approving multisite blogs as a single super_admin I’m not sure you can or should, multisite blogs are meant to be fully fledged blogs in their own right and the user that creates the blog is the admin. There are however steps you can take as the multisite admin to restrict what can be done on user blogs but that is more a question for WP than BP. If your meaning that you will have members on your primary blog that is running the multisite install and you want to elevate them above ‘Subscriber’ level to say ‘Contributor’ so they can post then that can be done and can and submissions will be ‘awaiting admin approval’ which you will see if you run through the options in the dashboard with perhaps a test user with a ‘Capability’ higher than ‘Subscriber’

Don’t add that , user Stacy – Stacey etc. is a fu..ing spammer giving the same advices everywhere , he only wants to harm your computer , it is a pity that on buddypress.org doesn’t exists banning or something like a forum moderation .

Username “Stacy” is a known spammer who gives “advice” that is potentially harmful to your computer. It is not advisable to use the code above.

This plugin should get you what you want:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-share-it/

I’ve noticed; I’m going to ping the admins to let them know.

Username is `Stacy.` (period is in the username)

It sounds like your patch only covers activity. When I unmarked the spammed users there was no x_profile data, friends, groups, blogs or messages either.

I was running BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1.1.

I marked a large number of users as spammers to temporarily block them from the site. When I reinstated them all of their BP data had gone (custom fields, activity, etc)! I don’t know if this is ‘normal’ behaviour for BP so I suggest anyone considering doing this tests it first.

I’ve done a complete restore from back up and am now looking for an alternative. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks.

I haven’t really explored it much, apart from getting the css to match various site designs…. I’ve tried to avoid using it but the spam (particularly the spam registrations) gets to be annoying. Adding this and the problem goes – apart from what appears to be the odd human spammer…

You could change where it says CAPTCHA Code to your own message – It’s an option at the bottom of the admin screen.

It would be nice to be able to place a text line above the graphic and above the captcha code line….

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/ work well for me with buddypress….

bump. are there not any captcha programs?

It’s hard to remove a post and let you see the response, so I’m closing this one. Please refrain from posting any further about this, it’s beginning to look like spam (this is the third post that I’m aware of, in the last few days). Heck, the title of this thread is the sort of thing Google’s going to pick up on, which I know is your intention.

In terms of people selling or advertising premium BuddyPress services on this site, there’s a balance between promoting your plugin in situations such as responding to a relevant topic, i.e. “how can I do x?” and you reply, “my premium plugin z can do that for you!” (which is okay), and outright advertising or spamming (which isn’t). Announcing a new premium plugin or theme is fine, but posting an announcement or advert each week isn’t — that’s spam.

Blatant advertising or spamming is not allowed; BuddyPress.org community support is about community support, it is not a free-for-all marketplace. This isn’t the place for that type of thing.

Specifically regarding your site, there are extra considerations. You appear to be re-selling GPL’d plugins and themes[1] (I have only taken a quick look at your site). As long as you had purchased these GPL’d themes or plugins originally, then you can turn around and give that theme or plugin to anybody you want. The GPL is about redistribution. My understanding is that this viewpoint is entirely correct.

However, I think you’re missing the big picture. It may not be illegal, but I don’t think it’s ethical. The authors of those works which you are profiting from worked hard to create something. By re-selling their works, I believe you are disrespecting those authors and the larger community. To me, it’s as simple as this: if this sort of behaviour discourages even one individual from creating a new BuddyPress plugin or a BuddyPress theme, because they’d like to try to make some money from it, then the community has been harmed by having one less choice.

I feel this threads falls between an announcement of a service and an advertisement for that service, considering your repeated posts, with debatable ethics. I apologise on behalf of our moderator team; we should have got in contact with you after your first post, and we’re sorry that it seemed we were picking on your posts. However, you could have posted another topic and asked what happened to your previous posts; we would have seen it.

I am paul@byotos.com if you would like to discuss further in private, or you’re welcome to start a new topic and start a discussion about the ethics of re-selling GPL plugins/themes, but maybe that sort of discussion would go best on the wordpress.org forums, rather than here, as it would be seen by a larger audience of WordPress plugin and theme authors (relevant, of course, because your site appears to have WP and BP-specific themes listed).

[1] This assumes that everything in those plugins/themes is covered by the GPL, such as images or any other files, as opposed to just the PHP source.

To prevent spam, the fonctionnality you want to use is not avaible. You can see tthe function in bp-messages-templatetags.php:522

Anyway you can add a button, which opens the send message page, but you need to add manually the user name.

Open from your_child_theme/groups/single/members.php
and add the function ` ` in the place you want.

You can also learn to your user to use the profile page of their contact to send them a private massage.
The number of click to do this is the same i think.

It’s your choice

Cool! I’d like to try the code too. Thanks for the info.

Edit – no spam links please. – Mercime

few things I’d like to change :
if you’re looking at your own profile then you should see friends activity as default instead of your own,makes more sense to me.
comments on your own activity should not repeat as activity in your own stream.
allow users to delete and filter comments and @ mentions on their profile. that way users can delete unwanted comments and @ mentions (SPAM)
if user is not your friend then he should not be able to comment on your activity stream.
and of course privacy settings are very important.

Few other cool things are ,you may know this user and birthday notifications.