BuddyPress.org

You have our sympathies, spam is one of those issues that drives us all to distraction and not just from a WP/BP perspective.

There are some detailed thread on the support groups that list a great many steps that can be taken, please have a look through those and perhaps implement a few recommendations.

Closing this thread.

I get the same amount of spam on my site. I’m currently deleting one spammer every 10 minutes, and I am not sharing anything with official WordPress sites. Something is going on with Buddy/Word and someone needs to dig into it because this is insane. It isn’t just this site. It’s the code somewhere. I’m sure it’s WordPress because I have a wordpress only site running and the sign-up spam is ridiculous there too. I am not joking when I say every 10 minutes either. I’m freaking out.

I tried BP Registration options based upon this post and the plug-in has some serious bugs. While it does the things it says it does, it also disables admin editing of any of the WPMU blogs posted. I also have a contributor blog going and it disallows contributors from posting media, it cancels out the permissions function I used to allow media publishing. Registration also does not prevent the spammers from posting blogs all over your site. And they do not respond very soon to any type of support questions asking how to fix these problems. I really wish I could use this plug-in.

That’s nothing to do with BuddyPress. “Subscriber” is the default WordPress role. However, I’m assuming these users have had their account activated?

Hi, Thanks for your reply! I am happy you replied on the subject. As previous to my “spam” nobody said anything… Sometimes you need a good “kick”start. If I have to be the “bad guy/voice” so be it many people want/need this. The more people that voice this the better.

We know about the spam problems. The volume is partly due to the fact that the user database is shared with some of the other official WordPress sites. We don’t have a magic wand, however.

Like I mentioned, that is the intended behaviour. This is probably done to prevent accidentally spamming your users every time the group description is changed.

File a ticket if you are not satisfied with this:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Login with the same credentials you use here on bp.org.

@hackcafejapan: you make a great impression as a new member here on BP.org! Just spamming and shouting on 4 topics in a row. I think we all get your point now! You know what, I’ll start spending all my free time on creating something extremely complicated as a multilanguage solution for BuddyPress. Thanks for motivating me and many others by being so vocal and rude with your requirements. Please don’t think for any minute that you need to contribute anything else besides spamming and complaining.

I’ll keep you updated about my progress!

ps: I can’t write a single line of code so it might take a while.

I subscribe to wpmu dev and their anti-splog plugin is worthe the fee alone….http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/anti-splog. It reduces the spammers to a trickle…

This is happening most likely because the text in the subject, and or message it triggering the email to mark as spam.

Download the plugin “welcome message”

You can easily edit the message for email.

@modemlooper Check out this guy’s post regarding a blackhole setup for search bots that don’t respect robots.txt: http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/07/14/blackhole-bad-bots/ Could easily be modified to to do what your talking about regarding the default register slug.

@functionmunchkin nice ones, didn’t notice them before .

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ip-allowed-list/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restricted-site-access/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tz-host-blocker/

And do any of these bots respect and observe robots.txt file? in which case id them from your server stats and block that url although that should be blocked already really.

You could go the Apache Allow/Deny directive in .htaccess?

Have you checked out any of these?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-user-registration-bot-detector/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-wordpress-security-plugin/

@modemlooper great idea… I look forward to seeing what the think tank here comes up with.