WTH does ,Member mean?

  • I have been getting a lot of these when the spammers are left to their own devices and decide to be pricks. The look like members but they can’t do anything I don’t think and not sure if they can post or not as when they have register somehow they have managed to figure out how to change their status. I don’t know how to fix this as I am a mod and not an IT and know nothing of how to fix it. I am a volunteer and running out of patience and time if someone from WordPress does not fix this. I have no idea about versions either. It would be nice however to have a mass delete button in the interim on all wordpress versions. As it was a pain in the butt to slowly delete 226 spammers today and I don’t have time for this either. Someone either help me fix it or wordpress can explain to the charity as to why I have quit their forum due to WordPress’s lack of support to those less knowledgeable about programming.

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  • Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    [contact info removed – help is provided on these volunteer forums only]

    What kind of software are you using to stop spammers? Askimet?

    @jane – www.ads-software.com offers FREE software and FREE, 100% volunteer help on these forums. If you’d like help with a problem, we may be able to assist you, but we can’t magically fix or change anything on your organization’s site.

    If you want help, some more info would be helpful – are these comments on the site or what forum plugin are you using?

    Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    It says at the 103 no idea what that means and plugins I don’t know either. Like I said I am not a programmer just a mod I delete I accept members but I don’t mess with the website not my job

    Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    If you can’t change anything on the forum for me i will have to quit
    the forum as I don’t how to do any of these things and refuse to download anything on to my computer. I have no admin priviledges I just a mod and recruiter is all.

    We really can’t help with this unless you are willing to do some investigation and learning on this. If you are using a forum, that’s not part of WordPress Core – but likely added via a plugin. Can you post a link to the site – we can likely get info from looking at it.

    Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    https://www.janeausten.co.uk/forum/

    I am not up to learning how to do programming I have no time for this and no desire to learn if you or WordPress cannot fix the problems I am having I will have to leave the forum as both WordPress and the charity leave me no choice. I am tired of doing this all on my own. I don’t get paid and they don’t pay for my internet either.

    I’m sure that will be a loss for the organization, but unfortunately, we have no admin access to the site or the forums.

    If you, or anyone there, changes your mind, feel free to let us know.

    And BTW, no one here or at www.ads-software.com gets paid either :).

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Also note that you are not disadvantaging us, but only yourself.

    Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    The my-plugins directory has its permissions set to 777. This is not recommended. Please use 755 instead. I told the IT we had before many times about this and the code problem as well when members post which means added work for me to edit every post for code. When spammers register it comes out like this at the end instead of member it says ,member

    Thread Starter jane austen

    (@jane-austen)

    thanks for nothing I and I am telling them you’re the reason i am leaving

    We have no admin access to the site, so that’s not something we can change. Who has admin access to the site and the server?

    I don’t mess with the website not my job

    Whose job is it? That is who should be in this thread.

    Looks like your forums are using the old stand-alone version of bbPress. No wonder you are getting spam. It hasn’t been supported in some time.

    I believe the only person that still has stuff regarding it is _ck_

    https://bbshowcase.org/forums/

    You should also get someone to install ZBBlock. It works with the standalone bbPress. NOTE that it takes some technical knowledge to install ZBBlock.

    https://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php

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