it just added the new role but im still having activation email problems
nope it wouldnt activate them and last time i installed a version of buddy press it automatically added a new role called member and it wont send out activation emails i got 4 new members today and i had to un mark them from the spammer list and send them emails apologising
That’s nothing to do with BuddyPress. “Subscriber” is the default WordPress role. However, I’m assuming these users have had their account activated?
When a new user signs up they r automatically marked as a spammer on my site and their is no way to set someone as a member i have to set them as subscriber. PLEASE HELP
Hi, Thanks for your reply! I am happy you replied on the subject. As previous to my “spam” nobody said anything… Sometimes you need a good “kick”start. If I have to be the “bad guy/voice” so be it many people want/need this. The more people that voice this the better.
We know about the spam problems. The volume is partly due to the fact that the user database is shared with some of the other official WordPress sites. We don’t have a magic wand, however.
Seriously – it looks crap, gives a bad impression of buddypress and makes it impossible to get anything useful via searches on the site.
Like I mentioned, that is the intended behaviour. This is probably done to prevent accidentally spamming your users every time the group description is changed.
File a ticket if you are not satisfied with this:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
Login with the same credentials you use here on bp.org.
@hackcafejapan: you make a great impression as a new member here on BP.org! Just spamming and shouting on 4 topics in a row. I think we all get your point now! You know what, I’ll start spending all my free time on creating something extremely complicated as a multilanguage solution for BuddyPress. Thanks for motivating me and many others by being so vocal and rude with your requirements. Please don’t think for any minute that you need to contribute anything else besides spamming and complaining.
I’ll keep you updated about my progress!
ps: I can’t write a single line of code so it might take a while.
I subscribe to wpmu dev and their anti-splog plugin is worthe the fee alone….http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/anti-splog. It reduces the spammers to a trickle…
Hello all,
So Iv recently started using buddypress and am very satisfied with it. however, the new site comes with a WHOOOOOLE lot of spammers and fake users who register using email accounts such as “@tvjapanlisting.co”
And there are 100s of them!
So I was wondering what would you guys suggest me to do? Are there any plugins that may help (other than Akismet, because I have that installed)?
Thanks!
– Raafat
thanks for the update @techguy. I think I’m okay with spam also, but just want the text “Check your email for activation” to stand out.
This is happening most likely because the text in the subject, and or message it triggering the email to mark as spam.
Download the plugin “welcome message”
You can easily edit the message for email.
Hi… I’m running into these issues – Sign up notification emails are delayed or end up in spam and on the same screen where users are asked to check activation email, they are prompted to upload avatar which doesn’t work. So I have to manually activate a lot of user accounts and change avatars. Now this is what im trying to do:
1. Change the text to bold/red where it says check your inbox or spam folder.
2. Hide avatar upload. It should only be displayed on first login or after successful activation.
@suchaqd – yes I have already done that, but it’s a bit manual
@crashutah – I am guessing it is to do with spam – I will think about whether or not to do it, thanks.
yeah! thats exactly what i meant 
sorry for being in a rush and writing encrypted. it would be great to have the possibilty (best would be on user’s side) to assign the rss-stream to a certain group-activity, rather than flushing (“spaming”) the main activity stream.
@bowromir: indeed nice job, my commendation! @pisanojm: what kinf of plugins di you found, are they fullfilling your needs?
best regards
roman
@modemlooper Check out this guy’s post regarding a blackhole setup for search bots that don’t respect robots.txt: http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/07/14/blackhole-bad-bots/ Could easily be modified to to do what your talking about regarding the default register slug.
@functionmunchkin nice ones, didn’t notice them before .
Need a solution that blocks any ip that reaches URL/register The only visits to this URL are spam bots trying to sign up.
And do any of these bots respect and observe robots.txt file? in which case id them from your server stats and block that url although that should be blocked already really.
You could go the Apache Allow/Deny directive in .htaccess?
The real issue is bots know the URL because its standard and will not help the hundreds of hits per hour wasting resources. It’s not a matter of blocking sign ups it’s blocking server hits.
For the time being I used this in .htaccess. Would like a way to auto ban.
Redirect /register http://www.google.com
@modemlooper great idea… I look forward to seeing what the think tank here comes up with.
