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Are these users spambots?

  • @marius-

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    The last two days, I’ve gotten four new members on my BBPress forum.

    These are Ashlynbap, Dariinortiozy, Queenmum and Tarahum.

    All of them have websites linking to Viagra or Acne-removal. All of them have email adresses ending with”.info”. None of them has posted anything. Is it safe to delete these users? What should I do?

    Curiously, these users joined after removing Akismet – which did not to a good job.

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  • @johnhiler

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Sounds like it!!

    Try this plugin by ck… it really helps cut down on spambot registrations:

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

    @marius-

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Are they timed bombs? Will they one day mutilate my forum with spam? Or what is it that they do? None of them have posted anything.

    I use bbpress 1.02, will that plugin work for me?

    @kawauso

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Most spambots from experience will be one-off registrations that they attempt to post with. The bots aren’t likely to attempt again later with the same user, because it’s easier just to try somewhere else fresh instead.

    @johnhiler

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    If you’re worried about deleting them, you can always just edit the users so that they are Blocked… that will prevent them from posting again in the future.

    Even if the users don’t post, if they have a URL in their profile… they help the Google PageRank of that URL. So maybe that’s the nefarious goal here… you could always zero out all the profile fields, including the url.

    @marius-

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Is Human Test plugin compitable with BBPress 1.02?

    Is it one of those hard “write in this word” type of things? Those are impossible to read!

    I don’t see screenshots anywhere. I don’t want registration to be even harder.

    @marius-

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Wow, I just discovered you cannot delete users? Why the hell is that?

    I have to manually edit them and block them instead?

    @hpguru

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Yes, i use bbPress 1.0.2 and Human Test work.

    Check this http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/register.php

    Human test is 6 + 8 = ? etc.

    @johnhiler

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    There is a plugin available that lets you delete users:

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

    @marius-

    Member

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Johnhiler, that worked! Even with 1.02!

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