How are you stopping the sploggy new registrations?

  • Resolved PetLvr

    (@petlvr)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I actually gave up on the wpMU concept yesterday .. offering other people to have sites on my installation, besides me.

    But the sploggers made me quit again – I admit in shame that I just can’t take the lost time in moderating this venture. Every day, I have had about 30-40 new users and splogs created and every day I delete 30-40 new users and splogs created. And I’m using WHM and ConfigServer Security & Firewall plugin and it’s like a one step process to permanently ban any IP in 5 seconds .. but it still takes time to make sure I have all the users and sites marked as spam and delete them.

    It sure took the cake today when AFTER I disabled all registration yesterday … and 4 new splog users/sites were created on my blog today. https://PetLvr-Blogs.com …

    How can that happen?

    What are you guys doing to combat the bots? I can’t believe my only option to stop them is to join a membership site wpmudev or purchase “pro” version plugins gd press tools to combat this. Isn’t there an Akismet-type of plugin available for this yet?

    HART

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  • Spoke too soon… they’re in again… damn sploggers.

    Thats strange – i looked to see if my ‘allow users to create new users’ option was checked, and it was – every time i un-check it and save changes, the page reloads but the box is checked again? Any ideas why it wont let me turn this option off?

    Yeah, it’s a bug. :-/ yes, it’s been filed.

    You can go change it in the database tho.

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