Added by Matt Gold over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.
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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
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.
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 . .. ..
Gotcha. I changed the registration page slug to something else, which helps a little bit.
But, I'll look into this a bit more.
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.
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.
See #2814 as that implemented email address restrictions, which appear to have solved the problem for the most part.