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You lucky, the spambots that are after me figure out the new slugs after a few days.

I am actually considering setting up a botnet to jam up their IP’s and domains as payback lol

“A nice feature would be (plugin request!) to have:

– an extra field on signup. “

Then add an extra required filed in the BO backend.

I don’t think anybody can stop you from posting a file on your server with domains and IP’s which you advise to be blocked… I actually think it would be a good idea to have this info centralized, an Akismet for sign-ups if you please, would save a lot of effort.

Just checked wp-ban’s stats and 4 IP’s were blocked over 1000 times. Though it does not stop splogs, it serves as a good example that sharing info might help, especially if the signup page can check a database of known sploggers or words in blog titles.

A nice feature would be (plugin request!) to have:

– an extra field on signup. Skip all the usless and annoying captcha’s, just a simple question: “why you want a blog?” or more specifically: “what are you going tor write about?”

– the opportunity to manually approve/delete sign-ups based on their answer, at least blocking the unapproved from appearing in blog lists, sidewide activity etc, basically making it 100% private (only vsible for admins) until approved.

Before you ask: I cannot make this, but I will be happy to test if some more skilled person can!

Rewriting the slug works for me. @andy, would it be possible to have the slug name not in wp-config, but as an option under BP options? Or even as a required step when activating/installing BP? That way, everybody will create their own slug and all should be happier to use BP

I started the group for splogging and spam a while ago, but to be honest I haven’t experienced any for quite a while now.

@andy’s right about changing the signup slug, that made a big difference for me. I also renamed (removed) the wp-signup.php file as that’s not in use, and again that made a difference – though watch for that on a wpmu / wp upgrade as it’ll replace the file.

I removed the WordPress references in my theme footer too, just to make it a little less obvious that I’m running WP.

Also running SI-Captcha antispam and NoSpamNX, but that’s about it nowadays.

what i read here is just childish… what kind of site do you run? from what i see on your site and twitter profile, you are a SEO marketer?…

you start a site for bloggers, what do you think you will do with it… grab spammers. this is the only goal on a site with open registration and off-topics.

i had hundreds of incompetent clients in the past, who thought they were gods and they knew everything and were able to fix everything they were touching… they were also whinners and drama queens. complaining about spam?… sure you can put the fault on the guys here, but that just show that you know nothing about spam, not a single bit.

a good captcha is not useful if the spammer is a human paid by a company to post adverts… a good filtering engine is not good either when the spammers use trolling techniques to post psychadelic messages…

it is the job of the site admin to filter by hand, to approve the content, to find great topics for a site, or simply to not use the boring “off-topic” market that is so profitable… like you just did to raise your seo rank.

you’Re simply not good at seo… leave.

Any of you who continue this thread any further are simply staring the ‘gift horse in the mouth’ so to speak.

~ spam in a problem for every company, be it IBM, Google or WordPress. These companies spend millions combatting it and it’s a problem for almost any CMS, or site that has UGC. If you can’t install Askimet, and/or a couple other preventative measures on your site, then you should hire someone who knows what their doing or you have a compromised(hacked) site where once again, you should hire someone who knows what they’re doing.

while not naming names ~ I have watched ‘your’ post on this forum and you’ve offered very little contribution and quite a bit of negativity. That doesn’t bode well for an open source community who provides you a product free of charge. Perhaps providing some meaningful feedback about your experiences will help the community develop better solutions instead of glaring accusations and harsh criticism? In fact your post in this community are very much like spam for the very same reason. At this point, you’ve pretty much hit an all time low since your accusing developers, many of whom work for free, of turning a blind eye towards the issue of spam. If you’re unhappy with website, may i suggest move on to another piece of software that is magically immune to spam robots, where you’ll most positively be a great asset, not only to them, but also with your absence here on the Buddypress Forums.

The best trick I learned for fighting spam bots is to ask a question that only a human can answer and making them type it into a text box. If you change the question daily or randomize it, it makes it even tougher. Don’t do anything like math or captcha or something that a bot can calculate or decipher. Ask a question like “What color is snow?” or “How many sides does a triangle have?”

But if humans are filling out the forms, you are pretty much SOL.

check this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/spam-spam-and-more-spam

zageek how do I make it so all the accounts at my site have to be manually approved?

What section of the admin cp is that in?

Are stwc’s solutions not enough?

IMHO – being overcritical will not solicit the best help. Like any community – you’ll need to fight spam regardless of the platform and requires ongoing patience to battle.

Some tricks I use

block all MSIE456 users, block bad bots, block known spammer country CDIR ranges, rename template pages, try whatever plug-in and tweak if needed.

I agree with you totally I also highlighted this issue in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/spam-domains-to-add-to-your-block-list

Not to sound rude but it feels like if the developers or the main people aren’t too affected by an issue then its not regarded as an issue.

SPAM is major problem and while a test site might work fine if you have niche sites around certain topics you might get more spam than others based upon the fact that spammers might come across your site through keywords specific to your site and as such the devs might not neccisarily experience such problems.

I have tried everything some spambots even seem to get around CAPTCHAs, the only option I have is to manually approve each new user.

If the devs can’t reproduce an issue, it’s pretty hard to fix, right?

“It seems like the Splog problem is not being taken seriously enough “

Sure it is – but a bunch of the devs have open test sites and aren’t getting hammered by splogs because they made a few simple changes, which they DID post about.

There’s tons of solutions posted all over. I’ve found you have to use a lot of them, the main one being change the default signup. Did you do that? Is your register slug custom? Have you added a couple of extra required fields on the signups page?

Working

WP single, WPMU 2.9.1 & BP 1.2

wp-ban

invisible defender

wp-spamfree

bp-links

bp-group-documents

On BP 1.2

Group Forum Subscripton for BuddyPress

SyntaxHighlighter Plus

Quanrantine (awaiting for soon? update)

bp-events

bp-groupblog

Sorry, but we don’t want a list of spammers’ domains listed here. Whilst you have a good idea, posting a list of domains is likely to be helping the spammers get better results in search engines, etc.

This is without a doubt one of the best plugins I have ever seen.

I have a couple of questions I have been playing with adding a (tweet this) to the link at the bottom where it says:

‘0 Comments (avatar image) admin created 5 seconds ago – (then here I would like to add a button for sharing)’

Cant find the right section to allow this do you have any ideas?

Another question as well is it possible to make the link section your home page, i.e. the first thing I want people to see is the link listing page, any ideas on how to do this?

Some suggestions (you can tell me to take a running jump on these!)

Is it possible to add a question in the link submission page (to prevent the inevitable spammers) like ‘whats 98 + 17 (enter in box) once they have given an answer the link is posted based on correct answer or wrong one throws up link could not be posted.

The other idea is a bookmarklet code so people can post on there blogs etc, or some kind of iFramed box to show how many votes they have received on their blog once the it has been submitted.

I know I may be reaching here but I just think this is a fantastice piece of code.

Cheers dude, look forward to hearing from you.

@Bbrian017, you have to add that line to wp-config.php yourself + a few other things. It’s explained here.

It’s a bit of a hack, so I think it would be good if it became part of the basic setup, maybe at installation (wpmu).