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  • #62546
    Andrea Rennick
    Participant

    zageek – in another thread @mikepratt mentioned he has a small number of required fields. If you just have the default stuff on signup, yeah, you’ll get flooded.

    #62537
    Mike Pratt
    Participant

    I have been running BP in Production since well before the 1st alpha release on the same url with the exact same registration slug AND requirements. Nothing is protecting on my site any more than a standard install – no captcha, etc. I can count on my hand the number of spam attempts to register. They are so few, I just delete them and use BanHammer once they try.

    How? We have a specific (albeit small) set of required registration fields to fillout. That’s all. I love siple and fast registration as much as the next guy but, unless you want to enforce email address verification and a bunch more, those are your real options.

    Changing the slug will work until it doesn’t …which won’t be very long. Consider how that spammer found you in the first place…with a bot – not by randomly coming across your site.. and just like in the matrix, the bots will find you again. :-)

    #62528
    danbpfr
    Participant

    If you change the signup slug, ie. from to signup to regme, probably that this can be found easely by spammers. But if you change signup to bolimp or domybest or f_12gt_99xpm, probably not. And building a random letter word constructor to spam a wp install is probably too much also… As far as i know, the majority of wp users never look into the code. And robots like majority…

    Anyway, the signup table would still exist… and accessing a db is not impossible at all i presume. So the only thing to change is the table name, 6 x by day if necessary. And this is not simple at all.

    Happy coding !

    #62526
    danbpfr
    Participant

    Have you read these recommandations ?

    http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

    They help in many cases. Really.

    #62525
    zageek
    Participant

    Spam is becoming a serious threat to Buddypress. We need to create a dedicated Spam section to help people fight it.

    Ever since I posted my site here in the showcase thread I suddenly had a flood of spam

    #62516
    thekmen
    Participant

    presume my last post got caught in the spam que because of two links, so will avoid this time.

    The parent theme is Justin Tadlocks Theme Hybrid & the child theme is down to Patrick of developdaly.com.

    I just added the BuddyPress reguired functions to my child theme, loving the functionality of BuddyPress 1.2, still some CSS needing to be worked out, but am happy to share the theme/code if wanted

    #62407
    catinw12
    Participant

    okay, well that was 2 hours not well spent.

    reinstalled the plugin recommended on the wpmu forum, namely collin mcdonald’s WP-Mail-SMTP Plug-in

    it doesn’t work, no matter what variation I tried.

    I cannot believe that with all the 1,000’s of buddypress users on here that I am the only one with issues about making sure our members get their messages and that they don’t go to spam.

    a default server email address like the one I mention here is sure to go to spam in many email programs. …

    the relentless search continues

    #62381
    danbpfr
    Participant

    @bowe

    Why would YOU put advertising on your site when spammers do it for you for free ?

    Top be rich one day, one hour or a few minutes, never forget that time is money ;-)

    #62359
    gpo1
    Participant

    Thanks DJPaul, I find these plugins and don’t advert them,but let people know of them.

    I don’t en-dose them or warrant anything only FYI !

    #62321

    In reply to: Buddypress strapline

    hatiro
    Participant

    Whilst that’s true, I think for those of us who are not great developers, coders or web stylists, having something that shows recognition even if its not linked is a better alternative than just deleting it from the footer…

    but of course with the logo I presume copyrighted, it would need to be an offical ‘powered by’ one to be used only for specified purposes.

    I’m guessing that those developers who are able to combat the spammers with a greater degree of control then perhaps it is a non-issue.

    It was just a thought.

    #62312

    In reply to: Buddypress strapline

    geoffm33
    Participant

    > So don’t link it.

    That would work.

    My point was that whatever method you use needs to still provide the same level of protection from spammers or else you might as well leave the “powered by…” intact.

    #62303
    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    I’d say the noteworthy features for Anti-Splog are their API and limiting number of signups per IP per 24 hours.

    I don’t really like the “changing signup page location every 24 hours” feature, although I understand the rationale, I’d prefer a permanent location for indexing reasons.

    The rest of it is doable.

    To make it seem like their plugin is uber-spectacular, they’ve created a flowchart :p

    http://wpmu.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Anti-Splog.gif

    #62302
    D Cartwright
    Participant

    My experiences with the premium plugins/themes in the past hasn’t been good to be honest. I can understand them wanting to be reimbursed for their work though.

    #62296
    Bowe
    Participant

    Plugin looks great and their blog is also great (WPMU.org).. I’m not so sure about their premium thingie though.. The plugin does look very good, so I’ll keep an eye on it

    #62289
    Mike Pratt
    Participant

    The WPMUDEV folks purport to be big players on the bP community but they have zero presence on these boards helping people out and they have plugins designed to suck you into their overpriced premium model. I treat everything on that site with a cautious eye. But that’s just me

    #62285
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    There is no problem with people recommending certain plugins, either paid-for or “free.” If this was Gpo1’s own plugin, then that would count as advertising. But as it isn’t… good find! Will have to take a look sometime.

    #62281
    @mercime
    Participant

    Arturo, there are other ways to stop sploggers. Check this out

    http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

    #62280
    Arturo
    Participant

    but is a premium plugin… not free like akismet… argh!

    #62243
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    Contact a forum moderator :) On that one.

    #62206
    D Cartwright
    Participant

    @mikepratt

    I was originally going to make use of one of the forum subscription plugins but our students have requested to be “spammed to death” with updates regarding their collaborative group work – much like facebook. Of course, now that they have got their wish they realise that receiving a huge raft of emails regarding your work each day isn’t quite as fun as hearing about what your friends did on facebook… ;)

    I’ve posted an update on where I’m at with the plugin and what I’m planning to implement before release this weekend. The link is below but I’ll also cut+paste the content as it’s probably going to get more people reading it if it’s on here rather than my small dev site.


    Update:

    Current bugs fixed. Will be adding the following requested features in the next couple of days with planned release on fri/sat/sun:

    1) User’s have to be registered X amount of time for their activites to email people. Warning about this in the notifications screen. Amount of time defaults to 1 week but controllable in wp-admin backend.

    2) Mention of the need to check these notification settings in the sidewide notifications area. Perhaps a list of links to the group notification settings for each group the user is a member of too.

    3) Default behaviour for the plugin will be for activity updates to be off or at least infrequent. This default behaviour controllable by wp-admin backend.

    4) Possibly change all notification settings to be time based as per the current group wiki edit ones

    5) Enable group admins + mods to send out a group update that overrides group user settings in regards to not receiving updates. This will be done by ticking a box on the update screen, an extra “what’s new” bit in the group notifications area or a screen in the group admin area.

    6) Finish the implementation to allow plugin authors to add their own action type handling

    The aims of these changes are:

    1) Keep the interface as simple as possible for all the site users

    2) Have default behaviour that isn’t too spammy

    Possible future updates:

    Ability for users to have update ‘digests’ received at a specified time daily. Allowing users to choose the time they receive the update should help spread server load.


    http://namoo.co.uk/blog/2010/02/01/group-activity-stream-email-notifications/#comment-11

    #62194
    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    Read this article on bp-tricks.com:

    http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

    There’s a ton of methods listed there to stop spam.

    #62192
    m2mediadesigns
    Participant

    or in my case, i was just so exited I was able to get the datebase and all the stuff set up without having to fall back on my usual tech guy LOL , by that point I probably had looked over that many times over.

    Since you know about this it seems, which spam protection do you use ?

    #62161

    In reply to: Mark as spammer option

    bbrian017
    Participant

    With my last template you could see the owner of the blog in the buddy press admin bar while visiting the actual blog.

    This is probably easy to add.

    #62130

    In reply to: Mark as spammer option

    djsteve
    Participant

    I am not following what you are saying at all..

    I always go into wp-admin and click on users and then go through there to mark as spammers – I guess there is another way to do this with buddypress?

    I would like a way to mark as spammers from the front page. I would also like a way to add email domains to the spam list at the same time, so the same email domain the spammer used to sign up with can’t be used again.. perhaps also pull the ip addy that they used and add that to a list that could be inserted into an htaccess deny list…

    A better way to find them by username or screen name would be nice. When spammers hit my BP site, it shows up as blog spam in the recent wire or whatever it’s called, listed as posted by “danielle jones” – but when I go into wp-admin backend / users and search for danielle, it comes up with nothing – that sucks – so I have to go back to my site’ home page, and hover over the spammers name to see what the url is, and then search for the member signup name that way – bleh

    catinw12
    Participant

    Any ideas?

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