http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ bbPress Showcase: Forum: bbPress Chat - Recent Posts en Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:49 +0000 http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/changing-username-does-not-change-topic-started-by/page/2#post-3668 Mon, 13 May 2013 11:22:13 +0000 nobugs 3668@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>Good idea! </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/changing-username-does-not-change-topic-started-by#post-3667 Mon, 13 May 2013 01:17:27 +0000 _ck_ 3667@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>You can always make yourself a new user for testing and force that user to change names to see how it works. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/changing-username-does-not-change-topic-started-by#post-3666 Mon, 13 May 2013 01:07:55 +0000 nobugs 3666@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>Just noting this seems to have solved my problem in terms of being able to change usernames.</p> <p>I have tried using the function "force user to rename him or herself" (I can't recall exact wording). I'm not sure if that part is working since no one has done it yet even though I set this option for four people! However, the main function of renaming does work. :-)</p> <p>Thanks, _ck_ as always, for the amazing plugins and support. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3662 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:52:53 +0000 _ck_ 3662@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>brntc I think I updated the trunk copy make users inactive, I just forgot to post here</p> <pre><code>if ($user_id) bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $bbdb-&gt;prefix . &#39;capabilities&#39;, array(&#39;inactive&#39; =&gt; true) );</code></pre> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3661 Sat, 11 May 2013 07:48:10 +0000 brntc 3661@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>In case anyone is having the same problem, to answer my question above about marking users as inactive, I made a very simple plugin based on CK's spam-notification plugin:</p> <p><code><br /> &lt;?php</p> <p>add_action( 'bb_new_post', 'spam_notification', 999);</p> <p>function spam_notification($post_id=0) {</p> <p> global $spam_notification, $bb_ksd_pre_post_status, $bbdb;</p> <p> // check if akismet found it as spam, stop if manually marked by admin<br /> if ( empty($bb_ksd_pre_post_status) || $bb_ksd_pre_post_status != "2" ) {return;} </p> <p> // should not happen, but safety check<br /> $post=bb_get_post($post_id);<br /> if ($post-&gt;post_status != "2") {return;} </p> <p> // get user ID and mark as inactive<br /> $user=bb_get_user($post-&gt;poster_id);<br /> bb_update_usermeta( $user-&gt;ID, $bbdb-&gt;prefix . 'capabilities', array('inactive' =&gt; true) );</p> <p>}<br /> </code></p> <p>It seems to be working, at least on my site. Using the mass-delete plugin, it's then possible to search for inactive users and delete them. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3650 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:57:00 +0000 bbdan 3650@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>CK,<br /> The new updated plugin does just what you said except that the user type shows the status "Member" for spammers - before, spammers automatically became "Inactive"(the user is Bozoed so they can't actually do anything). I just thought I would let you know. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3649 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:32:26 +0000 brntc 3649@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>Thanks CK, your efforts are appreciated. I've also seen a huge increase in the number of spam registrations and posts. I've just installed the new plugin so this should at least reduce the number of emails. Perhaps another feature for the future would be a time-based check, i.e., don't allow registrations that are submitted faster than X seconds after opening the registration page.</p> <p>A related spam question - while most of the registrations are stopped via this plugin, occasionally a spam user gets through. Most of their posts are then stopped by the Akismet plugin, but a few messages a day still manage to make it through to the forum. This might be the spammers 10th or even 100th message. Is there a way to mark the user as inactive immediately after one of their messages is reported as being spam to stop them continually trying to post?</p> <p>Brad. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3648 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:50:19 +0000 bbdan 3648@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>Thank you CK, I will try it. I also have the Enhanced Registration plugin which automatically deletes quite a few users daily. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3647 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:02:32 +0000 _ck_ 3647@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>Okay this new version 0.9.6 halts all additional new registration processes from running when sfs detects it as a spammer</p> <p><a href="http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/human-test/trunk/" rel="nofollow">http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/human-test/trunk/</a></p> <p>That means no password email to the user, no email to the admin other than the sfs notification.</p> <p>It still registers the user to track their username/email but sets them as inactive and a special status of "9".</p> <p>If you do not even want the user to be registered, find this line<br /> <pre><code>if ($result &amp;&amp; strpos($result,&#39;&lt;appears&gt;yes&lt;/appears&gt;&#39;)) {</code></pre> <p>and just put an<br /> <pre><code>exit;</code></pre> <p>after it.</p> <p>Keep in mind if you disable the registration (storing the bad username/email) they can repeatedly try to register it and waste your server time. I recommend you let it register and then periodically every other month clear out the inactive users with my mass-delete plugin.</p> <p>I still have to replace the math part with something better because the spammers obviously have a tool that recognizes human-test now. But I cannot do that until I have more time this weekend. </p> http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/hundreds-of-spammers-registered-every-day#post-3646 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:36:57 +0000 yavuzhan 3646@http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ <p>very very thank you! </p>