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I heard it was removed because it was showing a bunch of spam users that had joined. The only who is online widget that I know of is the default one that comes with the default theme.

yeah, I definitely agree!!! How come there is no working solution for this BIG issue? I am already boring of removing tens of Chinese spammers and their stupid shoes, bags, other “cool cheap” stuff every day!!! There are also bloggers who wanna real blogs and real webmasters who wanna keep their network clean from those anoying spammers … I please you, come with a working solution and we will pray for you…thanks

@netweblogic tbh I find that post unbelievable, it’s not only hijacking but downright rude and spammy, I’ll be deleting it from this thread shortly just so that you know when you look for it.

Yeah, I’m giving Humanity a try — seems to be quite effective.

There’s a big thread here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=6&num=15

Also trying to get this group active again:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/spam-eater/home/

Nice name. Needs some spam-related icon, though.

Incidentally, I still like the idea of getting folks together in a BP Group to attack the issue. I had suggested starting such a group on an IRC chat a few weeks ago, but I see now that there *is* a (small) group someone had set up. If people are interested, we can use that. Or maybe it’s fine to just continue this thread for now, though not having to dig through a few dozen posts has some appeal.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/spam-eater/home/

jwack – since you had such trouble with this even after taking some measures, what was the final regimen you installed for blocking spam?

It’s becoming a serious problem not only here but on every bp site. i have 6-7 hacks to block spammers and they still get in.

Thanks to this thread I am going on almost 48 hours with no new spam signups or blogs. lol I feel like I should get a coin? Yes that’s a bad AA related joke.

Thanks to this thread I am going on almost 48 hours with no new spam signups or blogs. lol I feel like I should get a coin? Yes that’s a bad AA related joke.

I’m using this plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

I have restricted registration only by invitation , yet I got one registration ….

have to done all the spam blocking techniques mentioned here to my installation … but did some definitely

thanks to this http://www.marcelboast.com/badboteliminator/

*Mod note: Disclaimer – this script is a paid script

A great way to stop bad bots is the Bad Bot Eliminator script http://www.marcelboast.com/badboteliminator/
It stops bad bots dynamically by blocking IP addresses.

*Mod note: Disclaimer – this script is a paid script

Thanks. That moderate-new-blogs plugin is exactly what I was thinking of but couldn’t find anything like it!

There’s also https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moderate-new-blogs/ and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/ which could help

Keep in mind that spambots are very likely to harvest those emails if you don’t have some privacy filters set in place.

I escaped.
install and WPMU-Block-Spam-By-Math

I spent some time yesterday to try to stop the constant flow of spam users and blogs being created on my site. Here is what I did…
1- deleted extra registration.php in bbpress folder
2- changed reg. slug
3- installed humanity
4- installed Si Captcha
5- added code from above to htaccess

I am still get about 20-30 per day.
Is there a way to tell if these are humans or bots creating these accounts and blogs?
I don’t know what else to do, any ideas? ( I really don’t want to disable blog creation during registration)

Thanks @Anton

@AnindyaRay

You’re very welcome

I’m using:
– Buddypress Humanity
– WPMU-Block-Spam-By-Math
– SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
and
.htaccess
# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

I think that the complexities of working on this site hosted on Automattics servers is not as easy as would be one of our own sites. There are a plans to do a fair bit of work as to the hold up on that I can’t say, I suggest that we badger @Boone in the Ninja group

Have to admit I have said a few times that spamming a site like this especially when it showcases the very app we all work with is far far from satisfactory and something really does need to be done about it.

Add this to wp-config.php `define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” );` and change ‘your-registration-slug to your own registration slug.

Edit * the wp-config.php file is situated in the root of your wordpress installation