This is quite a big problem. I deleted a user account but it didn’t delete the forum posts the user made. It only deletes his name in the feed but the content of the topic is still on the forum for the specific group. Now if it was a spammer(s) you would have to filter through all the groups/forums that they created and replied on topics and delete them. This will be quite tedious as you can’t search for the user in the database and delete all the topics related to that user because his name is deleted but not the content. You would have to manually filter through everything and I don’t think it will work.
John James Jacoby – You mentioned
“Which version of BP? This will be fixed in 1.2 as I think it’s just a missing or incorrectly named action. “
Where is this action so that I can insert it into my BP 1.1.3 installation? Is it simple?
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Yes, no spam in this category please!
yeah, but why do you spam this page ?
dfa327 (?) posted this on a splog fighting group wire:
I’ve upgraded my entire site. So far no bad guys:)
I’m up to buddypress 1.1.3 and wpmu 2.8.6.
I got the following plugins to stop spam:
http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/
http://www.poradnik-webmastera.com/projekty/invisible_defender/
http://www.svenkubiak.de/nospamnx-en
And a few other things to stop it, but I think those are working well above.
Prior to the above I was getting hit by the minute!!!! Now none:)
Haven’t tested them yet. Can’t vouch for them.
I have buddypress 1.1 installed and it seems to work perfectly except for spammers or sploggers or whatever..
I downloaded WPMU-Signup-Captcha from WPMUDev and put the 3 files in the directories, just like you said.
I don’t see it in the plugins section of the admin, and I still don’t have any captcha applied to new registrations.
A post has been deleted from this thread as it was little more than spam/advertising.
Thank you all.
Jeff I won’t try compression now because It could increase the CPU usage and this is our main problem. When it resolves we will do.
We have around 6000 page views a day.
Probably we have a very inefficient code somewhere but I don’t know how to find it. I reviewed several times the main blog theme and random files from the plugins but I couldn’t find it. I have just read about Xdebug, ¿Have you worked with It?
We have a wildcard subdomain.
I am not a server administrator but the VPS is fully managed and I think the guys managing it are good and we have migrated from another hosting company where we had the same problem.
¡We have cPanel and CentOS! ¿Could that bug be the problem?
The spam is not a big problem, some comments but not too much.
Thank you again
Without being able to look and see multiple files both within the wordpress part and the server, the most we can do is guess.
Some things I have seen crank the CPU:
– a bad plugin with an off query
– bad code in the theme (make the theme more efficient, revert to default theme to see if that’s the issue)
– inappropriate server settings. Did you really put in a wildcard subdomain (if you use them) or do you have, say 20, listed. (Seen it. Wasn’t pretty.)
– default server settings on high traffic sites. Preforks, child processes – all these can be streamlined.
– an obscure bug with cPanel on CentOS boxes that create a memory leak
– in rare cases a hardware failure
and finally – being hit with spammers constantly. I have a couple older domains, and no matter where I host them, the simple fact they are “out there” mean they get hit with an INSANE amount of spam. Email, comments, splogs – all of it.
Basically, you have to eliminate what it isn’t.
how much traffic do you get? How big is the database?
The problem is when I mark a user as spam it is marking the codex as spam since they are an auto-member. It’s fixed now.
Thank you!
Here is a modified re-Captcha to work with BuddyPress.
Hope this will help 
http://team.pookeo.net/2009/12/22/re-captcha-for-buddypress/
Spam bin for –: nancybaby
I’ve given up trying to add gmail-style folder tagging to the messages system in BP at the moment via a plugin; there’s not enough hooks to filter some queries. Might hack the core and do a patch
Why not just restrict emails so they can only be sent to one user at a time? Non-bot PM spammers probably won’t want to bother having to spam step by step.
Any code for this in the meantime?
Check those lines in the error message for all files and debug.
This is strange, must have been hacked right? I wake up to find this sting at the top of our site with the template not working:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/trying-to-stop-spam-email
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:17) in /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/deprecated/bp-xprofile-deprecated.php on line 436
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:17) in /home/borumaco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/what-would-seth-godin-do/what_would_seth_godin_do.php on line 124
Add that it includes a link to this very forum?? What’s going on?
I’ve got our developers looking at this thread but any other insight you can shed is most appreciated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo
“A stupid or foolish person” Other words for “spammer”.
You probably were marked, or at least your post was marked, as spam, as coming from a bozo. This is not an insult. It is the actual term that bbPress applies to suspected spammers. This has happened to me twice in the past.
If this happens again, or seems permanent, you should contact Andy or jjj as whenever I log into bbPress admin, it does not show me the “bozo” members. So, I have no way of changing the status.
But, since you are obviously posting right now, the issue was more than likely the system marking that particular post as probable spam. This is just a hunch.
Probably because the spammers don’t recognize it as BuddyPress yet, don’t expect that to last long.
Since using th new 1.2 beta theme I havnt had a single spam signup!
What we need, is a spam bin. I has an ideas. Let me mock it up.
Please, please, please – we don’t really need to see these spam message contents are they are pretty much identical, and we certainly don’t need email address or URLs posted as they help the spammers’ cause.
@Jeff. I don’t know… anyone who could solve the Unified Field Theory is not quite human in my books. LOL 
We could call it CAPTCGA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Geeks Apart)
closing pm system have to be like anyother privacy… i think we have a great coder here who started something like that somewhere, i don’t remember his name or the tool….
/me is low brainer.
rofl
settings:
global to all users
global to all blogs
per user switch on/off
…
@Harry
Yes, my Privacy Component works just as I described. It is an advanced beta available for testing. See this thread for more details: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-privacy-component-an-update/page/3#post-30574
@David
I wouldn’t give users the option to set it to friends only. Or at least… I would like the site admin to have the ability to disable that option.
In my Privacy Component, the site admin can choose to disable this feature.
But, to get back on topic, I agree that the best solution is the one that requires the brunt of the filtering to be accomplished through invisible, behind-the-scenes techniques. Requiring users to prove that they are members and not bots should not be the first line of defense. I think it is okay, even necessary for registration purposes. But that is a one time occurrence. After that, the system should do more of the policing.
Concerning your second link above, perhaps we could create a new CAPTCHA that could harness the collective intelligence of site members to solve the Unified Field theory.
You know you’ve made it when… LOL
I would highly recommend against closing off the private messaging system or even allowing it as an option. Being able to message someone you are not friends with is a HUGE use case in my opinion. Crucial even. I wouldn’t give users the option to set it to friends only. Or at least… I would like the site admin to have the ability to disable that option.
Personally… I despise CAPTHCA. Don’t pass your problems off on your users. Like websites that say “Best viewed in” or “Set your screen size to”… etc. Any solution must be invisible to users. I’ve heard of people using javascript events (mouse click for instance) as an alternative. Sounds good to me. Here’s something I found with a quick Google search.
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/javascript/human-form-validation-check-trick.php
Alternately… you could use a simple math question… like as in example. LOL
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2268237733%5Fcda4a1dbb3.jpg?v=0
