I wouldn’t mind requiring new registrants to be moderated, or at least new posts. I think post moderation is supported in bbpress v2, isn’t it? What about registrant moderation? I am currently using standalone v1.02.
I found the list of spammed posts. It’s in the Admin area under Posts; filter for Spam. Duh.
I have a standalone 1.02 forum with a small specialized population.
Human Test quit working (I seem to remember no one could register.) Recaptcha is ok for bots, but I think there are low-paid humans registering; I get like 30 registrations a day, and maybe 1 a week is legit. I use New User Notification Email which gives me the IP address of new registrants which I manually check against stopforumspam.com, but that’s a losing battle.
Akismet is good about sequestering the spam, only marking a couple of false positives. The Posts area in Admin lets you un-spam those. I’m going to try to upgrade to v2 to see if that’s any better.
fontadoni, have you accomplished this upgrade? Any tips?
Same question here–I have a standalone 1.02 I’d like to upgrade to v2. Don’t care about WordPress but bbPressv2 is strictly a plugin for WP, right?
‘This questions sound a bit silly, but is it helpful if someone tag a spam topic as “spam”, “spams”, “spamming”, or “spammer”? (I always do this when I see a spam topic)’
That explains why, when I come here looking for spam-fighting solutions, I turn up so much spam. 
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?
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?
I’ve been using Human Test successfully for 8 months with bbpress standalone 1.0.2. Today it stopped working, accusing all registrants that they are a bot.
I tried to leave a comment over in the Plugins forum in the Human Test topic, but I can’t post a comment there; clicking Add Comment does nothing.
What’s up with bbpress all of sudden?
I’d like the same thing. Well, I’m going to install the New User Notification Email plugin, but I’d still like to know how to sort the use list by reg date.
I’d like the same thing. Well, I’m going to install the New User Notification Email plugin, but I’d still like to know how to sort the use list by reg date.
I’m running v1.02 and actually got notifications running using xili “new post notification” which I found in the plugins section here. Any forum or topic marked as a favorite or for RSS gets an email, even if the user doesn’t follow through with the RSS part.
I’m running v1.02 and actually got notifications running using xili “new post notification” which I found in the plugins section here. Any forum or topic marked as a favorite or for RSS gets an email, even if the user doesn’t follow through with the RSS part.
John, I’m a newbie and am not clear on how to read the ticket. Will this work with bbpress 1.02?
