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Forum attacked by spammers

    • Posted 1 year ago #

    ´No, Akismet was designed to catch SPAM, anything from comments (blog/site) to posts/thread on a forum (bbPress), they're all the same! :)´
    Are you here just to annoy me?

    • Posted 1 year ago #

    Over the last few weeks, I've experienced the same problem with spammers on one of the forums I've set up. Akismet hasn't worked, no-spam-user hasn't worked, recaptcha hasn't worked. Anyone have any success blocking this new generation of spambots? (I love bbpress but seeing the same spam here is disheartening.)

    • Posted 1 year ago #

    Recaptcha worked for me. Despite how ugly it is.

    I run Honey Pot + Nospamuser + recaptcha. Have not had any spambots registering since.

    • Posted 2 weeks ago #

    I was using Human Test for 8 months on a standalone 1.0.2 forum and it worked fine for our small population (100 members). This week it suddenly stopped working and wouldn't let anyone register.

    I tried to post a comment over in the bbpress Plugin Browser forum in the Human Test section, but I can't post any comments over there, for some reason, despite being logged in.

    So I turned on Akismet which claimed it blocked 24 spams the first night, and counted 9 Hams. What the heck is Ham? And there appears to be no way to review the spams to check for false positives?

    Plus, I got 60 new registrants in 8 hours, and Akismet appears to do nothing to mark the spammers. Their web site is kinda skimpy on bbpress details, though I have sent a message to Tech Support.

    I don't have an associated blog.

    Will upgrading to bbpress 2 make the spam situation any better?

    • Posted 2 weeks ago #

    Do you all know that spammer like to target website with these words (or similar)?
    "Proudly powered by WordPress"
    "Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress"
    "Proudly powered by bbPress."

    Just try this in google search: "inurl:/register/ Account Details Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress" and see it for yourself. There's lot of it.

    Yes we're so "proud" of it until our site is flooded with spammers.
    So you may want to remove those words from your footer, etc. You may also want to change the /register/ (in BuddyPress) to something like /gimmeanaccount/.

    My site was once flooded by spammers especially from China with the @126.com before I make those changes and I'm pretty amazed with the result.

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