I just noticed that my newly installed BBpress board has now around 20 members (launched it around 2 weeks ago). Of these 20 only 4 have posted a message. Moreover, when looking at my logs showing real traffic I do not see evidence of so many registrations (my logs show real traffic only). Also, some of these new users have provided a spammy website URL (porn, gaming etc).

My question: can some of these new users be automated bots that somehow exploit the register form? If so what shoud I do/expect? How would they want to harm my website?

Thanks.

Dan

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

I think they just want to spread spam links. I doubt they could hurt anything unless there were a flaw found in bbPress.

Using the Human Test plugin pretty much eliminates the spam registrations:

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

[@danbbpress Participant 17 years ago]

Thank you Chris, this is a great plugin.

Dan