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– “neosolcafe.com/community” – That link goes nowhere.
– “activity stream redirects users off the site to view the links.” – you mean you have spammers posting off-site links in status updates?

@mrguythornton – Firstly, the mods are human too and do make mistakes, if they do mark it as resolved when your not confident that it is then just say so and @ one of them asking them to remove it. The mods are actually kind people (unless your a spammer). Also, not sure if your aware of this, but to mark a post as resolved the mods simply edit the title to say so – your welcome to remove it easily by clicking ‘edit topic’ and removing it. (if your the one who started the thread)

Anyways, now that that’s out of the way – “ is how you would get the URL to the loggedin user’s profile. (you’d have to code it deliberately though, i don’t think it’s easy to add it to WordPress’ custom menu.)

Something like this will (should?) work.
`<a href="”>Visit your Awesome Profile!`

Buddypress Humanity has worked really well for me.

Hi

There’s unfortunately no guaranteed solution to prevent spam user signup. There are a couple of easy things to start out with; try items 1 + 2 from http://themekraft.com/spam-in-buddypress/

“The most important plugin (imho) which is not available is new user moderation…”

In 1.6 the core devs have been doing some work on user capability stuff to make user moderation easier and mentioned that some of the changes will “give us more control over a users status and capabilities for later.” So, something like that ‘could’ end up in core *later*
See: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4038

But, their are wordpress’ plugins that might help keep non-authorised users out – eg. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/ & https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-invites/

Thats great Chris!

I also experienced my first registered spammer today, while I already took some precautions.
I’ve installed https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/ to stop spammers from getting in. The most important plugin (imho) which is not available is new user moderation…

A lot of small communities also use buddypress, and for those communities I think it would be fantastic to have an option to hold new users for moderation.
This plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/ was able to do that but hasn’t been updated in ages…
And that option will probably stop bad users from getting in, forever

i am about to try this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
– it looks very good. anyone tried it with BP yet?

@lairbear spam is an issue that is almost impossible to control, even the big proprietary social networks have a huge issue with spam – and they have alot of money to spend on controlling it. (I’m very popular with all of the really, really hot ladies on Facebook… lol)

In BuddyPress 1.6 their will be some anti-spam tools for the activity feed built-in that will hook into Akismet (http://akismet.com) to help control it, and while it has cut it down by alot on my test sites using it, nothing can beat manual HUMAN moderation. (Related ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3660)

Theirs also afew plugins that add captchas to the registration page, to kick them out before their even in… oh, and this article is pretty comprehensive – http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/best-practices-for-preventing-buddypress-spam-user-registrations/

You need to change the register slug. Pick something unique. Ex. http://www.mommychats.com/join-mommy-chats

This only blocks bots, people are getting paid pennies to sign up to sites so you can’t really block real people.

If you can, look at server logs to see a pattern for spam. Then block ip or emails. I would block yahoo emails, they are a spam haven. You could also limit to Facebook login only.

We could do with updated recommendations of antispam software, right enough.
Fortunately, deleting spammers is easy and take their posts down the tubes with them, but it is a chore.

@enderpal444 Their is functionality for this going into BP Labs when BuddyPress 1.6 is released.
See: http://byotos.com/2011/12/19/bp-labs-you-may-like-this/

While it isn’t exactly ‘core’ and is a completely separate, unofficial project, it is maintained by @djpaul who is a BP core dev and it is known for being a testing ground of afew of the new features being introduced in buddypress 1.6 (eg. akismet activity spam filter)

Might be an idea to keep an eye on it.