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excuse my ignorance of htaccess but is this even possible? and if so, how is it done?

I noticed a issue with spammers using CURL to download /registration so blocked that in .htaccess (It’s been mentioned on a thread somewhere how to)

sometimes it depends on your host too. emails from my default bp install on dreamhost tend to make the junk/spam folder (yahoo, gmail, etc)

I have the same issue. Tried installing plugins, changing email to a “legit” one rather than the standard noreply@xxxx.xxx, tried sending through SMTP rather than mail()

Nothing works.

Most likely Hotmails spam filter reacts to the activation link, that would be my guess at least.

If you click on any of your user’s avatar or username, you’ll see a new menu item in your admin bar called Admin options where you may edit the user’s profile, avatar, mark as spammer and delete the user.

I had the same problem a few seconds ago. A newly registered member didn’t recieved the activation email but was listed in WordPress>Backend>Users

I asked the user to check spam inbox twice but there was stil no activation mail

It would be great if admins could manually acivate such users or resent the activation email.

I’m getting several spammers signing up, I have the Anti Splog plugin (here) and the reCAPTCHA is turned on.

Email Activation is turned on.

AND I’ve blocked all of the emails on this list (here)

HOW ARE THEY GETTING THROUGH!

Thanks for keeping on top of this everyone.

Have seen this before. Not sure how it’s done, revision history appears to be misleading. I’ve sent a message to Andy Peatling as a heads-up.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22twitter+apps%22+site:codex.buddypress.org

I also found a spam link in the codex and deleted it.

Spammers ruin everything.

Fixed but it would be good for an admin to go and see who made the change in the first place. Well, assuming whatever wiki the site is using actually maintains that information.

Along these lines…I haven’t seen much discussion about spammers lately.

Am I still the only one getting 100+ per day?

Please please please someone figure out how to make buddypress’s registration page reference the banned domain list!

Re #3 – if that record is deleted, they can sign up again using the exact same info. That record tho, is never displayed anywhere else.

Really, the mass deletion of spammers shoudl be handled on the WordPress end, as ultimately that’s the menu your’re using.

Without going and checking, I *think* you can sort the blogs/users so the spammers are all on one page, select all and delete all in one go.

For more than a screenful, I do it with a SQL command right in the database.

@3sixty – I’m also interested in something similar. I’ve added a member as a spammer and as you say it doesn’t add the blog as spam so the blog entries that member (spammer) made is still visible on the activity stream. need something that delete’s everything that spammer is related to.

Can someone give solution that users that wish to sign up dont use buddypress signup page, instead they use regular wordpress signup which is much much safer.

Then all you need to do is install SABRE and spammers are gone. This is urgent request because i dont wish to have spoammers on my sites, same goes for everyone else, i m getting hit by 20 spammers per hour.

BTW nothing mentioned in this topic works!!!!

@Boone,

….Not sure about your email problem – has your friend checked the spam folder?…….

I am very sure this issue is related to bug within your Plugin:

During the Step “Send Invites”, I clicked on the link “Send invitations by e-mail”. Then I entered the e-mail of my friend into the first e-mail-field. Then clicked send. Then I received the message “Invitation successfully sent”.

Then I hit the back-button of my browser to go back to the Tab “Send Invites” as there is the button which says “Finish” (for finishing the Group-Set-up).

The e-mail never reached my friend.

Ah, if you only need it once, then it’s easier. Build a list of all members

$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE spam=0";

$members = $wpdb->get_results( $query, ARRAY_A );

Then loop through $members and do the operation that dre1080 mentions above:

foreach ( $members as $member ) {

$user_id = $member['ID'];



$args = array(

'per_page' => 10000,

'show_hidden' => true,

'user_id' => $user_id

);



if ( bp_has_activities( $args ) ) {

global $activities_template;

$count = $activities_template->total_activity_count;

} else {

$count = 0;

}



echo $user_id . " " .  $count . "<br />";



}

I haven’t tested this but it or something very similar to it should print a list on the screen of user ids along side their activity counts.

Ah, if you only need it once, then it’s easier. Build a list of all members

$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->users} WHERE spam=0";

$members = $wpdb->get_results( $query, ARRAY_A );

Then loop through $members and do the operation that dre1080 mentions above:

foreach ( $members as $member ) {

$user_id = $member['ID'];



$args = array(

'per_page' => 10000,

'show_hidden' => true,

'user_id' => $user_id

);



if ( bp_has_activities( $args ) ) {

global $activities_template;

$count = $activities_template->total_activity_count;

} else {

$count = 0;

}



echo $user_id . " " .  $count . "<br />";



}

I haven’t tested this but it or something very similar to it should print a list on the screen of user ids along side their activity counts.

tested again and an opted out email that I try and send a new invite to results in the message body textarea being added to subject line textarea.

for reference the option to allow user to customise both subject line and message body are checked but the user has not actually added or changed any of the default text displaying.

On a slightly odd note and harking back to my email issues invites were being flagged as spam while all other site emails i.e registration emails were arriving as expected normally , now this has changed despite me having changed nothing!! inviites are correctly being received and not flagged as spam any longer .

*sigh* it’s a black art, server email configuration