Hi folks,

Our forum is getting spammed by bots pretty bad, to the tune of 200-300 new spam topics per day. It’s a battle to clean it every hour.

We have Akismet enabled and it’s picking up some of the spam topics on the bbPress forum. I feel like if I mark more of the spam topics as spam, Akismet will do a better job. But here’s the catch.

The bbPress moderation page doesn’t give me the ability to mark topics as spam in bulk. I can only mark new topics as spam one-by-one, which makes moderation extremely more tedious and time-consuming.

Is there a way to mark topics as spam in bulk (selecting multiple topics, and using the moderation drop-down)? I currently my only options in the drop-down are “Move to Trash” and “Edit”. I can mark bulk spam comments on our WordPress blog as spam, but not with bbPress.

bbPress Version: 2.5.8
WordPress Version: 4.4

Thanks so much for any and all help!

[@alexluft16 Participant 6 years, 7 months ago]

Wow, looks like Automattic has really let bbPress become a stagnant piece of software and community. Perhaps it’s time to look for another forum.

[@ufgraymatter Participant 6 years, 6 months ago]

Just ran into the same issue with 1000+ topics in the last three days. No good bot registration stopper. No easy way to bulk mark spam. No easy way to delete all topics from one user. Why?!?

[@joshlovesit Participant 6 years, 3 months ago]

I’m having the same problem…can’t find an answer.

[@jemar707 Participant 5 years, 9 months ago]

Managing replies and topics in a large open forum has become a nightmare. I have searched high and low for a way to manage posts by IP/user, name, and of course the marking bulk spam as you mentioned. Mass edit/delete is not teaching anything to Akismet. I am using CleanTalk to manage spam registrations which seems to help with spam. But managing posts that get through filters requires tools like the Comment Dashboard for WordPress. I am going to look for someone to write a plugin. Perhaps the Comment Moderation plugin Developer could help us.