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• 3 posts
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• Started 3 years ago by danbbpress
• Latest reply from danbbpress
• This topic is resolved

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• human test
• members
• plugin
• spam
• users

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Automated forum registrations?

1. • 
   • danbbpress
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I just noticed that my newly installed BBpress board has now around 20 members (launched it around 2 weeks ago). Of these 20 only 4 have posted a message. Moreover, when looking at my logs showing real traffic I do not see evidence of so many registrations (my logs show real traffic only). Also, some of these new users have provided a spammy website URL (porn, gaming etc).

   My question: can some of these new users be automated bots that somehow exploit the register form? If so what shoud I do/expect? How would they want to harm my website?

   Thanks.
   Dan
2. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I think they just want to spread spam links. I doubt they could hurt anything unless there were a flaw found in bbPress.

   Using the Human Test plugin pretty much eliminates the spam registrations:
   http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
3. • 
   • danbbpress
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   Thank you Chris, this is a great plugin.

   Dan

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