@chouf1 try uploading a picture. It doesn’t work. Where is the settings options on the BP drop down menu in the plug-in list? Not there! He is aware and was on my website testing it. It broke their plug-in and many others. And the other change only makes sense if you want an hour tacked onto your administrative duties. Do you get at least 50 slogs and spammers a day? Good luck clicking around trying to delete them in the minute it used to take. UGH! I don’t know why you insist upon arguing about that. Unless you have a vested interest. I just feel sorry for all the plug-in developers who are frantically trying to make their stuff work. And now my site is broken. I’m screwed. Tried downgrading. Sucked. Didn’t work.
@ewebber I wish I had waited. You are making a wise decision!
@DJPaul – well, people ought to know that if they are running plug-ins (any plug-ins including spam plug-ins) that most of their installed plug-ins are going to get killed. Including Welcome Pack. And I did comment on the WordPress site. Not happy. There is no way there was enough testing on this. On Buddypress side, things are working fine. It’s WordPress. All my major plug-ins… dead. Now I’m going to have to revert back to the previous versions. I really shouldn’t have hit the update button. But… you’d think that you should be safe to do so.
WP really irritates. I’m going to refrain from using foul language because everyone who commented was able to.
It’s broken lots of the plug-ins I was using. Welcome Pack – doesn’t work. BP Album + – doesn’t work, although I spoke with the plug-in developer and he is currently working on a fix. I don’t know who the Welcome Pack developer is so I don’t know if he is aware that it is broken. The BP Album + developer didn’t know that their plug-in wasn’t working. So maybe the other plug-in developers don’t know that their plug-ins don’t work either. Who knows?
Wouldn’t it be easier if all the plug-in developers, BuddyPress, and WordPress somehow got on the same page so that all updates could be easily streamlined so that we didn’t need to go through this every time? If the plug-in developers were able to test their plug-ins before the updates were integrated that could save EVERYONE lots of headaches. Is it possible for this simple streamlining of events to happen? Can’t there be a centralized place where things are actually tested first?
Not only did WP break certain plug-ins but they’ve also changed the way “users” and “sites” are listed in the dashboard. They are all alphabetical now. If anyone knows about spammers and how OFTEN we have to mark them as spam on the fly or delete them, they will know that an alphabetical listing is not efficient. This is an IDIOTIC change. Having users and sites listed as first joined or created and last joined or created was better as deleting spam took 1 minute. Now it takes an hour. You have to click through each page or copy and paste the spammers user name into search users in order to delete or edit or whatever.
And what’s up with “network admin” and who thought that was a good idea? What’s going on WordPress? I know this isn’t a Buddypress issue, but a cook is a better designer of a kitchen than an architect. Just sayin’. UGH.
Hi guys,
I’m about to launch a commercial site soon which HAS to be as free from spam as possible.
There is a free membership and a premium membership so I just don’t want spam sign ups for the free memberships.
Can someone give me or point me to a comprehensive list of checks/ plugins to stop spam sign ups as completely as possible?
Thanks ! 
@jordashtalon did it work for you?
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam by Mike Challis has worked well for me.
@modemlooper, thanks for your suggestion on different forms for different users in the register.php.
I also want to change the register slug. Because spam bots know bp register slug. We can get rid of a lot of them by simply change the register slug. But, how?
Well, I must agree with some guys here, that it really should register users out of the box.
Solution confirmed:
Mail From plugin allows to send the email to the user.
The next small issue is that gmail catches that email as spam…
You can go into the database and change user_status from 2 to 0.
On here or on your BuddyPress site? The only way I’ve been able to fix this is to go into database and remove the member. Then have them resign up.
Hi,
One of my friends created an account, and he was marked a “spammer”. Is there any way to assign him a regular status?
Kevin
This looks like just a WordPress site without any BuddyPress in it?
Or is this just spam?
First of all a big thanks to the WordPress and BuddyPress world. It really changed our lives:
We started about 2 years ago with the idea to create a local community for subculture. At this time BuddyPress popped up and inspired us. Step by step we saw ourselves developing themes and plugins. Things continued, and in the end, we decided to concentrate 100% on developing and designing themes and plugins. Themekraft was born.
It’s the home for our free and premium themes and plugins and the place to get in touch with us, give feedback, report bugs, and find help. Have a look around!
Thank you all. It’s such a great feeling to be with you in such a huge playground!
Give us some feedback, let us know your thoughts, that would be really appreciated.
Here some more site details:
Theme:
we have used our Custom Community Pro theme for this site 
Plugins we use:
BP Auto Activate Autologin Redirect To Profile On Signup
BP Code Snippets
BP Group Documents
BP GTM System
BuddyPress Group Forums – Move Topic
BuddyPress Moderation
BuddyPress Profile Privacy
BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation
BuddyPress Usernames Only
Custom Field Template
Custom Post Archives
Custom Post Type UI
Fast Secure Contact Form
oEmbed for BuddyPress
Post Type Switcher
Q and A
s2Member
SeoPress
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Welcome Pack
WP Activate Users
Solved. I’m an idiot.
user_spam_remover Plugin was improperly configured.
As a side note: If you use buddypress for commenting, the User Spam Remover plugin won’t pick up on buddypress activity as being actual site activity – thus causing users to be mistaken as spam bots.
I have groups set up, but I had some people ask for their own “blog” though, which I’m a bit reluctant to do because of spam / server space issues. I thought if it was just a glorified activity stream thing it might be easier to keep under control.
Gravity forms sound interesting… have to look that up, although I don’t think it is what they are asking for… they want their own “home” on the site so to speak.
New users marked as spam. This is devastating my new site. How do I “un-mark” these users. New registration doesn’t allow to re-register with username or email address. Why is this happening?
Same issue, new users going to spam status. How do I “un-spam” a user?
Hi,
( i need a sql query to delete all private messages from DB or all pv of an member. )
there is private message Spammer and abuse, i think it is bot specialy for buddypress. same problem posted here http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/private-message-spam-and-abuse/
Is there a solution for this spammer or just removing ‘Send Private Message’ for non-friends is sufficient ?
i have a suggestion to create a plugin or add a message administration in the bp .
Thanks advance for answer and sorry for my english 0_o.
Dear All,
I am running the Buddy Press with multisite at http://www.studyguide.com.vn and gotten headache with spamming registration. I have surfed the web many times and try some plugins but I still get spamming! Is there any solution?
Probably mark as spammer, or request it over at Requests and Feedback
Mark him as a bozo, on the backend of bbPress, or a spammer on the ack end of WordPress. Oughta do it…
I have the most annoying user when it comes to forums. I block him from one group and he goes to another. It’s not spamming as much as trolling, and I would love to know how to ban a user from ALL forums on Bp???
Would using some javascript to fill the value of a hidden field name signup_blog_path do the trick?
Or should I just remove the bp_core_signup function and replace it with my own?
Im also trying to fight spam and a recent change to my signup form has increased the number of spam signups. Is there a good solution for helping ensure a human is signing up to buddypress? Im also trying to evaluate whether the vulnerability is from buddypress or my theme. How could I tell?
My hosting service pulled the plug on my WP/BP site because they can’t handle the overload from the search function. I don’t know for sure if spammers were abusing it somehow? They’re saying they want a captcha installed to the search function. Is there anything like that? I’d look in the plugins, but it’s all offline and I can’t access anything.
P.S. I purchased new hosting services tonight and will be moving, but I need to get the site back online in order to move out.
