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How to stop spam registrations

iameverywhere
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@iameverywhere

10 years, 8 months ago

Hey guys, I have an idea that maybe has already been done. If it has please tell me XD

I get spam accounts who post their website on my activity feed. They come in waves like 3 or 4 at a time. It’s always the same pattern. They create an account, post a status saying check out my site and give a link.

Is it possible to just automatically delete every new account that posts a link in their activity feed within the first 15 minutes of creating their account?

Ive never seen a real person post a status update within 15 minutes of creating an account, and the spam bots do it immediately, so it would be a great way to automate having to delete spam accounts.

Any thoughts?

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danbp
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@danbp

10 years, 8 months ago

https://buddypress.org/support/search/spam/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

BuddyBoss
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@buddyboss

10 years, 8 months ago

@iameverywhere

I have thought about this a lot as well. BuddyPress spam is SO obvious for a human to figure out. You can detect spammers with almost perfect accuracy in just a few seconds. They all do the same thing. They create an account, then post garbage links. If you have Groups enabled, they create groups full of links in the description. I don’t know of a plugin that will do this, but the best way to block BP spam I think would be to put users in moderation if they post links to groups or activity, just like the setting we have for blog post comments.

iameverywhere
Participant

@iameverywhere

10 years, 8 months ago

no one has done it yet? seems like such a quick fix… maybe ill make a plugin
iameverywhere
Participant

@iameverywhere

10 years, 8 months ago
Would this work?
```
function spammersdeletion() {
global $wpdb;
$from = strtotime('-30 day', time());
$wpdb->query('DELETE FROM wp_users WHERE DATE(user_registered) < "'.date('Y-m-d', $from).'"AND user_status = "2"');
}

add_action('init','spammersdeletion');
```
jslom
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@jslom

10 years, 7 months ago

Use wanguard.. It has stopped all spam registrations for me 100%
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/

Ben Hansen
Participant

@ubernaut

10 years, 7 months ago

yup wangguard rulez

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