TL;DR: I wrote a small BuddyPress plugin to restore the "mark as spammer" link in the admin toolbar and add a "spammer" button to the activity stream's actions. You can grab it on GitHub. Here's the deal... I maintain a small BuddyPress site, and it gets hammered with spam … [Read more...] about Spam link plugin for BuddyPress
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Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress
In chatting with a few people at WordCamp Phoenix about our various BuddyPress sites, the issue of spam user accounts came up several times. I'd just run into this problem myself on the VP Alumni site, and after cleaning out about 400 bogus users (all with usernames like … [Read more...] about Stopping spam accounts on BuddyPress
