By the way, I CAN delete the user if I go the dashboard and go down to the WPMU ‘users’ section no problem. A little bit more work, but now that I’m getting the odd spammer signing up, it’s essential.
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.
Oh I’m sure @foxly & @francescolaffi development inc will come up with something. It’s just that not having it part of the core makes much harder to develop, because frankly, BuddyPress doesn’t currently have many useful hooks for plugins to manipulate the core. So you have to hack the system in all sorts of crazy ways and that can really slow down the site.
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.
EDIT: what I meant to say was “now that Andy is not working *full time* on BP anymore, as automattic has split his time between other topics” – my bad
@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.
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.
I sense that there are some politics at play here, so I’m going to keep my head down. When spam becomes a problem on the sites I run, I’ll develop my own solution.
@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?
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?
My grandma would tell me stories of way back when you could by a can a Spam for a penny.
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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.
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.
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