CUNY Academic Commons

"BLOCKED BY STBV" comes from a plugin Simple Trackback Validation that is network-activated on the Commons.

Obviously, spammed comments should not be generating email notifications. It could be that there's a connection between this and recent spam-related issues, but this appears to be a different kind of problem - instead of double-triggering of activity notifications, it's the generation of activity for spammed comments.

Ray, can you please have a look, as the logic is probably adjacent to #11160, and maybe #11164?

I have a feeling we need to patch up the BP Include Non Member Comments plugin to only allow regular comments to be recorded into the activity stream.

I've done so here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/8368f72771b272a2f5eba0308937e18ce9947340

I'm deploying this as a hotfix to production, but I'm unsure if this will 100% address the issue. This is theoretical at the moment as I haven't had time to generate trackbacks on a groupblog for testing.

Let's keep an eye on this for the next few days.

Ray, can you please have a look, as the logic is probably adjacent to #11160, and maybe #11164?

These issues have popped up due to the introduction to reply to groupblog comments via email (#8225), which in turn required changes to BP Groupblog and unbeknownst to me at the time, affected the BP Include Non Member Comments plugin (#10800) and how it interacts with the group activity stack and group email notifications.

No follow-up reports equals progress!

Going to mark this one as resolved for now.