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Why are there so many scam posts on the general activity stream

@harounkola

Participant

13 years, 4 months ago

It pains me to see so many of them here. And my own BuddyPress sites are also plagued by it. And I’ve had to uninstall BP from a few of my sites (the one’s that I have total control over)

Is something being done about this, especially on this, the home of BuddyPress.

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@enderandrew

Member

13 years, 4 months ago

I don’t think this is a problem with Buddypress, so much as any popular WordPress site. They will get plenty of spambots registering for accounts.

There are plenty of solutions including:

Captcha plugins like SI Captcha or WP-Recaptcha
Akismet
Bad Behavior
Etc,

However, the best solution is active moderation. And I’m guessing the crew that runs this site is also busy developing Buddypress, bbPress, etc. to spend a bunch of time moderating this site. Perhaps they should seek out volunteers to help moderate.

@bulingit43

Member

13 years, 4 months ago

Well I guess BP should be more watchful with this and upgrade the membership.

@r-a-y

Keymaster

13 years, 4 months ago

I’ve notified one of the admins. FYI, moderators on bp.org cannot delete activity updates, only forum posts.

@kchun

Participant

13 years, 4 months ago

I’m getting scam posts to me directly. Is there a way to ban these guys? Report them to someone?

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