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I would pick reCAPTCHA as you can use your google account with it.

I have the same problem – all car related.

Realized I didn’t have Akismet turned on. This is what the plugin was designed for. I’ll keep an eye on the forum and see if this works, and report back.

Not sure why you are so reluctant to use it?

I’m having issues with spammers. There are tons of posts in the posts table in the database, but only the 4 I originally created are showing. And someone else, who seems to be a spammer, seems to have moderation rights in the forum.

I also have WordPress multisite installed and that’s giving me troubles too, but I wonder if this is all related? I’m thinking of blowing away bbpress, truncating all of the bbpress tables and starting again.

I’m going to be changing the admin passwords today. I want to query the user table for users with admin rights. How do I do that?

Ramiuz –

I turned on Akismet last night, it caught all my car spammers and then some while I slept like a baby.

You realize that Akismet is actually run by WordPress, right? And that they are actively developing it? And that it connects to a shared database so that all spammers across the internet are flagged?

It shouldn’t “mess the whole forum up.” Try it again and if you’re having problems come back and I’ll help you. Akismet is the solution to your problem.

TonyVitabile –

Can’t you search users via the admin panel and see who is an admin?

If there are “tons of posts” but none showing, maybe they have been deleted already? By Akismet, perhaps?

Hard Seat Sleeper:

I went to the bbPress admin panel & there’s 1 admin, a friend of mine that helped me set up the site & I made him an admin a year ago. The admin ID & my ID are the only Key Masters. There’s one moderator, again someone I set up as a moderator. Everyone else is a member or inactive.

I checked off the “Bozos only” button & filtered & there are 607 bozos. Is there an easy way to block all of the bozos or do I have to block them one by one? Or should I not bother?

And there were 37 posts in the posts table that were spam, for things like insurance & imaging jobs in Miami. I deleted those posts from the database control panel.

Question: Is the “bozo” attribute set by Akismet? And does Akismet add entries to the “Recently moderated” list on the dashboard?

I’ve changed the admin password & my password. I’m having my friend change his password. Hopefully, that will stop anyone from gaining access to admin rights.

My site has almost 1200 users & 607 of them are bozos. That’s depressing.

Tony

I’m getting the same kind of spam from those same bogus gmail addresses. And they are using random forged ip addresses. I guess I’ll try Akismet or Captcha and see what happens on my 0.9.0.6 board.

I have the same problem. I tried Human Test and bb-NoSpamUser and they didn’t work properly. I don’t want to try Akisment because it makes to many faults and blocks real users.

I just installed reCaptcha. I’ll let you know if it works.

I installed the reCAPTCHA plugin (noted above) and it seems to have nipped the problem spam in the bud. Previously, CK’s “Human test for bbPress” plugin had been doing the trick on my board. However, with this more aggressive & annoying automated bot spam, it was guessing the equation and then getting in the door.

I’m not overly happy about having to install captcha software, because it’s difficult to make out the characters sometimes and I feel it’s an impediment to quick and easy registration for people. Nevertheless, something that stops the hoser spammers is appreciated and reCAPTCHA appears to have succeeded (for the time being).