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  • #63500
    Andy Peatling
    Keymaster

    There is nothing protecting spammers from registering on testbp.org. I get some occasionally, but I nuke them with “mark as spam” as soon as they pop up. I found since with the new default theme spam has reduced significantly.

    SI Captcha is a good spam prevention method. There really are a lot of options, but don’t search for “BuddyPress spam prevention”… this is not a BP issue, it’s a WordPress issue. You need to search for WordPress spam prevention instead.

    #63499
    jittopjose
    Participant

    This is my phpInfo() page (http://www.hallowdemonlive.com/test.php). Any of you plz check whether anything missing that require SI Captcha to work?..

    #63498
    jittopjose
    Participant

    Not only wpmu, wordpress Standard also has the spam registation problem.. especially with buddypress.

    @m@rk I know SI captcha work with buddypress. I created a test installation and tried, its works there.. but when i tried in another shared hosting package of same server, it doesn’t. I dont know the reason. The image is not get displayed….

    #63490
    m@rk
    Participant

    @jittopjose : SI CAPTCHA works like charm with BP. It protects my site from spam registrations/ comments since about a year.

    dainismichel
    Participant

    Can you point me to where BuddyPress.org sets the expectations that BuddyPress will not function the way BuddyPress.org does?

    Thanks John James Jacoby, since you’ve known me at least since April of ’09, which is how long I’ve basically been trying to get a functional replica of BuddyPress.org going.

    The short version of my post, which I would have edited the thread-starting post down to would have been: “is it ethical for BuddyPress.org to function differently than an easily available BuddyPress install method?”

    So, I’m saying, OK, it might not go “POOF” and work, but there would at least be a procedure to follow available.

    I will address the “Dainis wants something for nothing” slant that some posters have taken: I find it very unfortunate that I have appeared to you that way. Nothing is further from the truth. I know from first hand experience running http://www.curetinnitus.org that there are a lot of life-sucking trolls out there who just demand more and more and more…it’s amazing. In my case, sometimes such people are suicidal, they send me emails and demand or plead for my input into their lives. Fortunately, the way I’ve recently restructured curetinnitus.org has reduced the number of suicidal pleas…though I do want to make sure that my site is there to help people who are in trouble and that reminds me that I should put a crisis line link on my home page…

    Anyway, Erich73, you are right, I need one or two blitz-schnell hot programmers on my team. The thing is that with my level of hacking cracking and code cutting and pasting skills (been writing tech docs off and on since 1991, I’ve been an IT manager, web coordinator, webmaster, etc.). I actually do want to work with someone via skype.

    I don’t like “hands off” work, cuz it just goes so much faster together (especially for something like the forums issue I’ve raised). I mean, if I’m on skype with you, I know if you are checking through this and that and you actually don’t know and I’m paying you to find out, or if you can tell me this is here that’s there, put this line of code there and here you go.

    That’s what I’m looking for.

    I’ve had ace programmers in my corner before, and I can tell you, I loved it. I loved every second of it. It’s a blast working with excellent coders…and when I’ve had the chance, I’ve written, in my opinion, very functional, easy to follow, structured end-user documentation to suit.

    It’s a self-aggrandizing aside, but I recently started pitching the following:

    “The Documentation Drives Sales, Internal Efficiency, and User Satisfaction Mega-Advantages Report That will Turn Your Documentation into a Super-fun, Time Saving, Just-in-time Knowledge Delivery Cash-Magnet”

    So, I’m tootin’ my own horn, but I guess I really just want to say that I am not accusing here, that I’m not a parasitic expect everything for nothing troll, and that I am actually not against paying for certain services, especially if they are explained to me.

    I mean I’d have even purchased “Make your BuddyPress install work just like BuddyPress.org” for I dunno, $50, but now, I’m pretty interested in learning how to make it work…

    I offered many times to exchange my skill set in technical writing for these solutions. Many times. For those who may claim that my not seeking the solution well enough is where the issue lies, I’d challenge you to find the solution to creating Main Themes in Forums easily, and I request of you to show me where the divergence between installing BuddyPress and using BuddyPress.org is clearly stated.

    Also, I am willing to help BuddyPress.org with its wording. I am good at that. Setting expectations is a big part of documentation consulting, and as much music as I’ve written in my life, I’ve sure written a lot of tech docs…and I’ve come to enjoy it too. :-)

    Many of my posts end with “I’d be glad to make a video tutorial and write up this procedure, if shown how to do it,” and I hope you find that fair, because I do.

    Essentially with the main community I’m setting up, it’s really about saving lives, and I want to get to it. That’s partially behind the tone of my long post.

    Mike, regarding just thowing barbs: Dude, I am the only dainis michel on this not so green anymore earth of ours. I am a very public Internet personality, I run the Cure Tinnitus Show, I’ve interviewed lots of folks in sustainable and green living, and I’m even out there talking about urine therapy, which frankly, takes a lot of balls, even if I say so myself. I’ve been made fun of, flamed, targeted, spammed, subject to $300-800 of CC fraud attempts per day, I mean, I’ve been around this Internet block of ours, and in no way am I attempting to post anonymously. I’m really easy to find and getting in touch with me is as easy as googling my name. Just about wherever I post, I use my real name, and it’s totally awesome that you are doing the same here. Huh, I also made two posts almost identical to what you suggested. I really am doing my best.

    designodyssey: if my search was flawed, please tell me where my answer is. If you find me impatient, that sucks.

    The word “two-faced” in the title of this post is not an accusation, it is a point for discussion, which I feel John James Jacoby clearly understood. It is just human nature that, in a sense, that word wound up catalyzing what will likely bring me to my solution, and what will likely improve this community as a whole. The copywriting lesson is “negative titles work.”

    So,

    * I’m happy to write documentation and create videos in exchange for programming support.

    * I’m also happy to reword BuddyPress.org download pages and such so that expectations are set beautifully and kindly (to minimize these kinds of misunderstandings). Again, in exchange for programming support.

    * It’s funny, cuz I’ve already reached out to a few programmers here and offered money, but I haven’t found anyone yet…at any rate…I’d love to have a paid professional in my corner who can present blazing fast solutions while on skype with me.

    That’s about it. It’s funny, cuz I really wanted to edit my big long post up there, but there was a tech glitch. I even tried 3 different browsers, restarted my computer, etc. So, in a sense, this discussion was necessary and helpful. I do hope it provides benefit to BuddyPress, and frankly, if I did not have confidence in this community, software, platform, etc., I would have never posted so openly.

    The irony here: I really actually only need a code snippet (at least that’s what I’m guessing).

    Cheers all, if we’ve ruffled our feathers, cool…that can be fun too…now how do I make them forums, and is anyone open to helping me in one of the ways I described above?

    Sincerely,

    Dainis

    #63487
    Sam Steiner
    Participant

    @Andy – so you don’t know of a solution to this? How is it solved on testbp.org?

    #63486
    Andy Peatling
    Keymaster

    This is a problem with WPMU and spammers simply wanting to register spam blogs. I’ve not really seen the problem on standard WordPress, and with blog registration disabled.

    #63485
    Sam Steiner
    Participant

    This is actually one of the greatest issues with WPMU/BuddyPress at the moment. Many people seem to have this problem and when I ask in Twitter nobody seems to have a solution to this. I noticed the problem on a community website I was (am) a member of and then again on a new installation for a community website I am building. Spammers just keep registering.

    Is this more of a problem with WPMU than of BuddyPress?

    Is somebody out there NOT having this problem?

    #63484
    jittopjose
    Participant

    I read that article. At the end of it, there is a suggestion for using Invisible-defender plugin modified for buddypress. I tried that plugin, but it shows error when a registered user try to login. The plugin available at wordpress plugin site is not for buddypress i think.. Anyway i installed the latest from wordpress plugin site. Let me wait and check whether it block spam registration.

    #63483
    Bowe
    Participant
    #63482
    Kunal17
    Participant

    Si-Captcha was ineffective in controlling spam registrations on my site. I have to delete 10-15 spammers daily.

    #63481
    jittopjose
    Participant

    I tried captcha technique. but some how its not working with my installation. I dont know what the exact reason is. The image is not get displayed. when i clicked on the test link at the Si Captcha settings page, it is redirected to “not found page” ..

    But Buddypress test site (testbp.org) does not hold a captcha.. but still it seems that there is not much spam registration. How they control spams without using captcha. Any idea about it?..

    #63479
    m@rk
    Participant

    I recommend the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

    #63429
    djsteve
    Participant

    I would love to see this, and actually I think it would be prudent to keep people’s activity out of the stream until they have been a member for a selectable amount of time, say 2 days, 3 days, a week. Perhaps even have an option fot amount of posts or something. This would keep the spam blog posts they make from pushing the legit ones off my front page.

    I would also like to see this filter turned off if logged in as admin, so we could administer the the spammers better – I often go to my front page and look at the activity stream to find the spammers – so if this filtered my view, than it would be harder to hunt them.

    Good idea – maybe a plugin will be created like this one day.

    #63331
    jimgroom
    Participant

    A re-install of the BuddyPress plugin as well as a rehacking of the custom theme seems to be doing the trick, time to turn this ticket off for now.

    #63285
    jimgroom
    Participant

    Update: Seems like the sitewide activity feed is showing the comments that Akismet is marking as spam. Which simplifies my issue, or so I think, how do I filter the spam comments out? Any ideas?

    danbpfr
    Participant

    If you like to laught, go here:

    http://jeunessarkozystes.fr

    a BP site full of spam and splog who support the french president.

    #63078
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    Aaaand we’re off topic. This thread is for reporting spammers on buddypress.org, not about how to implement anti-spamming measures on your own site. I am going to lock this thread.

    If you are looking to report spamming issues on THIS SITE, please send a message to a forum moderator or find us in IRC chat.

    If you are looking to discuss spam prevention on your own site, please make a new post or find an existing one.

    #63068
    PH (porsche)
    Participant

    Guys, But seriously,, even if the bot-spammer gets through — its still very taxing on my server!

    Im thinking of installing “BAD Behavior” but im really trying to limit the stuff I have installed/

    any suggestions?

    #63060
    pcwriter
    Participant

    Here’s something else that might interest a few: I installed WPMU Super Captcha over the weekend (running WPMU2.9.1 & BP1.2rc). Since then, there have been no bot signups at all, and the plugin has blocked exactly 50 attempts. Plus, it logs each attempt that it blocks so I can keep track.

    I’ve also added a comment on the registration form directed towards human signer-uppers with a support email address just in case. None of the 50 blocked attempts have used it, so…

    Bots had managed to get around other plugins I’ve tried before, but not this one.

    #63022
    danbpfr
    Participant

    @Boone, yep, thx !

    So i progressed on my site. I downgraded to wp 2.9 and asked (gently) my host to give me more memory.

    I have now 25 mb for php and the install is working. But i haven’t installed plugins other than BP for the moment….

    If this memory lack is “normal” or “expected”, i would preddict that as soon as WP 3.0 is avaible, 90% of all WP user actually on a shared host, and who udate, will go down. As actually no shared host offers at least 32 mb for php…

    The cgi php solution with 64 mo, the new host trend apparently, is more powerfull but is always shared too, which means that i could write at my site entry: open between 3 and 4 am. The rest of the day, maybe my neighbour is trolling on emule and consume the server memory with * db queries on his overspammed fischerman forum… Wouaaaaaaaa ! Nice future…

    This means also that from now on, a WP usage with BP is only intended to be on dedicated server.

    If this hypotesis is right, this must be annouced to the world and should be mentionned, at least, in the readme file and on the download page.

    So i discover that WP, who once was one of the fastest and litest CMS, is now entering in the heavy weight super-pro area, with ultra wide storage capacities, intense RAM consumption and specialized hi-band connection… Whouaaaaaa !

    Twenty Ten, a new template but also a very surprisingly year ! ;-)

    #62706
    thekmen
    Participant

    Thanks for the plugin, however the activity stream is showing spam comments even if they are stopped by akismet

    #62564

    In reply to: Moderate members

    Ray Mannion
    Participant

    @jeffreeeeey: any luck with this? I’m getting the bp-registration-options.php on line 639

    error as well.

    The plugin has helped a great deal. I went and modified wpmu-functions.php to add the members profile URL so I could quickly look at the person’s info and either spam or delete them if I thought they were fake. It’s still pretty manual, but faster.

    I currently have the option set that people can sign up for groups on the registration screen:

    http://tkdunion.org/register

    So, I thought perhaps it occurred because I didn’t join any groups. Lots of people get emailed when a new user signs up, so I hesitate to keep testing this. Any suggestions? How did you resolve this issue?

    #62552
    Arx Poetica
    Participant

    Oh. @Andrea_r –> any way you could point me to that particular Mike Pratt thread?

    #62551
    Arx Poetica
    Participant

    I was having major problems w/ sploggers. The link Chouf1 mentioned totally stopped ’em dead in their tracks. I think I’ve only had one splogger since, and it was a real person just typing it in somewhere in Thailand, trying to up their SEO ranking or something weird like that. :p

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