Go to your profile page https://buddypress.org/community/members/synaptic/profile/edit/group/1/ and make “Name (required)” different from your username. One way to prevent spammers’ posts from appearing in activity streams.
um, what? I think your response was intended for someone else. I don’t understand how it applies to my questions.
That could happen as I have many tabs/browsers open at the same time 
But in this case, my response was to your query, “shouldn’t the ‘Your Activity’ button (top left beside ‘Site Activity’) show me a list of my activity on this site so far?”. .
on this site they have it set to block spam, change the name in the profile field to something different than login name
ok, now I understand, this is a measure in place to prevent spam, thanks @modemlooper and @mercime appreciate the help
I’m not entirely clear why the 3 things are linked together:
1)stopping spammers’ posts from appearing in activity streams
2)username and name variables
3)activity stream not shown in a person’s profile page (https://buddypress.org/community/members/USER-NAME/activity/
If the key issue is stopping spammers from polluting activity streams (1) why not do that? why involve (2) and (3)?
is it just how buddypress is coded that makes it a necessity that if we want to implement 1, then 2 and 3 must also happen?
The activity stream here is really non essential as its a support forum 
@modemlooper
Have to disagree with that.
The stream is an easy way to look at prior posts – especially helpful because the search doesn’t work.
I have an activity stream on my profile – but it’s always at least 2 months behind and never comprehensive.
So having neither a useable stream or search means people using this site… well you know how they feel.
Well it is sorta broken and should be turned off in favor of a profile tab that shows your topics started as well as topics involved in. I bet JJJ will flip this to bbPress eventually. #FingersCrossed
