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I was having this same issue, and this awesome guy linked to a plugin for me. Check out my original post with his link in it: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-better-filter-spam-users-on-my-buddypress-site/

The nice thing about the plugin is that is also lets you ask users if they want to join your MailChimp email newsletter list when they sign up.

I am so looking forward to not having to deal with hundreds of spam users now!

@rsutaria Have you found out the answer to this problem ? m also facing the same..no confirmation mails.. @erich73 not even in SPAM-FOLDDER

Foxly, I would have expected you to know that getting more actions or filters into buddypress is very easy, as long as you aren’t changing the template files between major releases.

Mercime, Andy’s gone nowhere. He’s still project lead.

Im closing this topic as this is not on-topic anymore, start new posts if you want to discuss more.

@foxly: And then there’s the whole issue of *where automattic is taking buddypress” and what they intend to do with it, now that they’ve taken Andy off as the lead developer.

say what? .

EDIT – there you go again, editing your forum post. fortunately, i’ve got a screenshot of it.

@foxly, even though your solutions require code modification you do say “i’ll develop my own solution” – will these be plugins you release, or perhaps become part of the bp-moderation plugin that is being developed by @francescolaffi?

I really appreciated your detailed posts on the tools spammers employ. It has given me a much better understanding of the problem. Thank you.

I’m pretty new to Buddypress and WordPress. Launched my first site today with 95% of the “i can’t find my registration” emails solved by directing them to their spam folders. But beyond that I have three that can’t find their email, say it’s not in their spam folder, and I need to get em in. Opened phpadmin and didn’t see a “wp_signsup” listing. Checked out “wp_users” and found user_activation_key and there’s a list of 30 things and two of them have keys next to them. They’re different keys. How do I know which one to use? And how exactly do I use it. Do I go to the mydomain.com example url above and enter this key and then that gets them in? Or do I give them the key and they do that? Any insights most appreciated.

@codeispoetry – Try upgrading to BP 1.2.5.2.
There was a bug in deleting a member or marking a member as spam.

I deleted the entire contents of the OP as it was one, giant spam advertisement. I did not delete this thread yet because I want to remember the offending poster.

@jeffsayre & @foxly it’s been a while since I visited this thread, but I liked the momentum on it. What was the consensus at the dev chat? What’s the stat on this item? Can I help in any way?

stwc, found this post and using your method I haven’t had a spam registration yet. thanks so much.

1. There is number of discussion on this forum about issues signing up… most likely they didn’t get the activation e-mail …check spam/junk folder…. I tried to register for your site and did not recieve the e-mail so it may be you are having trouble sending mail from your server? Can you get it to send you an e-mail?

2. This has be solved here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fatal-error-when-trying-to-delete-user/
3. If they have created member accounts and have not “verified”… it may not show as they are listed as “spammer users” until they register…so I’ve read here.
Here is another link:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/test-7/
…and another:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/members-list-not-showing-bp12/

“You can only update the groups you’re a member of.”
That’s the idea, one way to prevent spammers from messing with your group.

Do you mean you want to allow anyone to post status updates even in private (by invitation only) groups or only in public groups?

My grandma would tell me stories of way back when you could by a can a Spam for a penny.

PS
All those “rules” you sited are SEC Regulations. Any fool can make money on penny stocks, as long as they are on the inside and keep close tabs on the volume. I guess it’s a hopeful sign these scumbags still think the can make money on these pump and dump scams.

Thanks! I was seeing the error when marking users as spam. Works properly now.

Ok, so I don’t think that there’s any function to know if the email bounced or not. So, BP would think that it was sent successfully even if it’s a fake email. You’d have to setup something to catch the bounced email to then know that it was bad or something. Unfortunately, email doesn’t respond with a successful reply when an email is received so that you’d be able to cue off of that.

I think the solution to the spam accounts that weren’t activated is a plugin that will allow people to easily clear out these never activated accounts.

“What’s wrong with creating the user before the activation email is sent?”

Because the (spam) account is still there, listed everywhere, even if it will never be used.

I also used this 5 hours ago then deleted 49 spam users so you can bet your *** it works!

@cometchat Do all of the packages have buddypress support on that page? Right now I have the skysa bar which is free so its not as good but I got it intergraded with my site except for the avatar and it dose not have friend support plus Im using there api which means no support as it is alter with the extra code. Im kinda leading towards the $49 but its branded but with skysa it cost me 99 a yr to not have branding. Which I dont plan to upgraded to. i just cant see how someone can pay and still have a branding? Then pay like 70 to remove it? This seems to be more priced to people who have a large site. Now if I had like 300 user I can see buying this but with only 3 of us who dont even use the bar we have now and the countless spam account joining everyday I think I will stick with skype in tell I get a large group of 300. So for now its in my book marks.

Has anyone made any progress with this? Will we have buddypress checking for banned email domains soon?
Will we have buddypress checking for banned domains upon registration and perhaps even again upon activation?
Can someone please add the possibility to add *.info in a way that works
I know this won’t stop all spam and splogs – but I am getting tired of deleting a dozen spammers every day that are mostly from the same dozen domain names that I have added to the block list. This would save lots of people hlaf the splog deletions, and that adds up to a lot of time saved.
BTW – has anyone tested buddypress with TTC Spam Bot Registration plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ttc-user-registration-bot-detector/ )to see if there are any issues? I am guessing it may still be bypassed by buddypress even if it worked in WP?

@elizawhat; Your post made me think, and I checked our (not yet) live site, which does require email confirmation. Mostly I’m thrashing around at home with a local xammp installation, and can’t remember what I did to make the live one require email conf. The plugin linked to below should do it, although it’s not activated in our site..! Something in WP or BP lets you require email confirmation, but I can’t remember what.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-xtra-signup/

Our site is for one UK county only, so would it be possible to put a rule in .htaccess to block any connections not from the UK? (Not brothered about search engine spiders, as it’ll be local word of mouth advertising). Or, is it possible to just block anyone from outside of the UK from signing-up? That would allow others to read, but not register or post.