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New Stop Forum Spam API Plugin; Block Fake User Registrations

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Hey Guys,

    I get hundreds of fake forum users who register on my forums here: http://reviewtrip.com/traveltalk

    Even though I use the plugin Human Test, I still get these spam users. So I decided to create a plugin that hooks into StopForumSpam API to stop these guys.

    You can download and find the instructions here:

    http://reviewtrip.com/blog/stop-forum-spam-api-plugin-for-bbpress

    Let me know what you guys think!

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I guess it would be a good alternative to akismet (or even in addition to).

    Your code can be cleaned up and condensed considerably.
    It also could benefit from some security checks on the $_POST data being injected into the url.

    Here is an untested, condensed version with some mild security checks on the $_POST
    http://pastebin.com/f7a50d82a

    (there is also an alternative to curl in there for the 50% that don't have it on their server)

    I took out some of the extended manipulation of the returned data that you didn't need.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I admit, I'm using the same tool (but I force all registration through WP so I run a plugin there). It's actually used with Bad-Behavior and Akismet, since those were catching about 90% of the forum spam (and 99.99999% of the blog spam). Dunno what it is but you get more spammers able to make accounts via bbPress than WordPress.

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