Bug #2690
closedSpam Registrations
0%
Description
Hi Ray --
Even with a captcha on the registration form and AVH Spam Blocker in action, I'm receiving 3-6 spam registrations a day on NYCDH.org. Any thoughts about other ways to prevent spammers from registering?
Best,
Matt
Updated by Raymond Hoh over 10 years ago
Hi Matt,
I would recommend an invite code that only your potential members would know. By that I mean, not a Googleable Q+A.
We could install a plugin like BP Humanity that would allow us to add a custom registration question and the answer would be the invite code.
Updated by Matt Gold over 10 years ago
Thanks, Ray. Unfortunately, this is an open community site, so I don't know who potential members are. I suppose we could set up some tertiary process whereby people would have to look something DH-related up on the internet or answer some kind of question . .. ..
Updated by Raymond Hoh over 10 years ago
Gotcha. I changed the registration page slug to something else, which helps a little bit.
But, I'll look into this a bit more.
Updated by Matt Gold over 10 years ago
Hi Ray --
I think I need to change the registration page slug on another CBOX site. Can you please quickly explain where/how to do that? Thanks.
Updated by Raymond Hoh over 10 years ago
If you're on a network install, navigate to the Network Admin dashboard. Next, go to "Settings > BuddyPress > Pages".
Click on any "New Page" link. This should take you to the "Add New Page" screen. Now, disregard this and click on the "Pages > All Pages" link.
Find the registration page and edit the page slug to whatever you want and save.
Matt, let me know if that's clear enough.
Updated by Raymond Hoh over 10 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
See #2814 as that implemented email address restrictions, which appear to have solved the problem for the most part.