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I can obviously delete the user but I’m guessing that it won’t delete their blogs.

Give it a go, you’d be surprised

I have the same problem. The help in the FAQ seemed to work if the problem is the e-mail is ending up in Spam – but my problem is that the e-mail didn’t come at all. And eventually those users will want to re-register with the same e-mail but they can’t because the site says “that account already exists”. I need a fix for BOTH these issues.

In the past 6 months I was getting 50+ spam bot registrations a day. I used WangGuard, but it was not catching them.

The bots were looking for the default registration page at http://yoursite.com/register

I changed the permalink of my default registration page to something else and have not had any issue since then.

Knock on wood, I have not had to delete any bogus registrations for the past month.

I hope this helps.

Read this: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wpmu-Wordpress-Mu-PluginsThemesAndNews/~3/pgTwacuDc6A

Changing your outgoing email address might fix

I wouldn’t use WangGuard because it sounds like that could easily cause problems for non-bots.

I’ve been having good success with SweetCaptcha, I haven’t had any complaints from anyone & it seems to work for people from all cultures. One bot through since installing, but that is a lot less than lots of bots a day.

@rogercoathup

Great to read about your success with BuddyPress and Enterprise Nation.

Customizing registration appears to be a must when creating a high load community. There is a lot of heavy lifting that needs to be done during signup which requires a custom process.

Interesting that you do not use and activation email.

The site appears to be locked down from a BuddyPress standpoint. No Activity Stream?

@neononcon you might want to check out WangGuard (free in WordPress plugins) for help in limiting spam registration.

~eric

@elangley

@elangley the thing is that whether you have BuddyPress or not, when you have open registration, expect spammers – bots and humans. There are human spammers who are paid by companies to post backlinks in as many websites as possible and those who spam just for the heck of it, and other than making your site by invitation only, you’d have to monitor membership in your site regular and be prepared to cull the spammers.

It’s a requirement of law that email gets run thru filters and may get sent to spam. Might be the email header ain’t right.

Spam is a tough one to crack. Whilst I don’t claim to have the ultimate solution Captcha is a good step then also 1.6 as you said has measures. I also think that encouraging good community policing can help. Testbp is after all a test site so yes there may be some issues different there from an active community.

@modemlooper, changing his profile/username will only show activity going forward, not retroactively

@sp12 what modemlooper is trying to say is that there is a strange feature at buddypress.org which hides your activity stream (due to spam concerns) so a way around it is to change your profile and edit your name field to something else other than 12sp (I changed mine from Synaptic to Asynaptic)

when you make the change you’ll be able to then see your activities on this site going forward, but you will NOT see activity prior to making the change, so your best bet is to recall keywords and then to search google like this (remove quotes of course):

“site:buddypress.org KEYWORD”

and hope that it has been crawled in google.

This “feature” to fight spam has been a source of questions by MANY users here at buddypress.org so much so that it seems the best bet is to either change it or to at least INFORM people once they register that they must change their name/username to be able to see their activity!

No idea why mods ignore this – it would not only cut down on confused questions but also improve usability of the site since prior activity is never shown, even when the change is made.

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.html

To 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]

I need that, too !

For ratings — have a look at GDPress and their star rating plugin

You can search for ‘buddypress.org anti spam’ on Google ( search doesn’t work on this forum ), and it should throw up a lot of previous discussion on the subject.

@djpaul also revealed that a coming version of BuddyPress will have Akismet support for activity stream entries (1.6 or 1.7… I can’t remember which).