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Confirmed, we turned off WangGuard and we are seeing the member name and email in the notification template. These are sploggers so WangGuard must have been blocking their attempt, but was still triggering the notifications.

Any thoughts on how the two could work together? We could leave it running, recognizing that empty requests are spammers, but my client prefers to see the names to be sure it’s not a valid request.

I’m going to add a CAPTCHA to the registration page and measure results to see if we can reduce these.

You’re plug in is great, because prior to this, sploggers were getting access to the site and creating groups and posts. At least this way we can reject them before they are an issue.

We notice on the Approve members page that it states:

Coming soon: If you Ban a member they will not receive an email and will not be able to try to join again.

This would be really helpful because we are getting multiple attempts by the same address.

Thanks for your help, I look forward to your feedback.

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes the “template” I’m referring to is the standard notification text. The ( ) is exactly what we receive in the email, there is no member name or email address in the notification.

Website is http://www.scisfc.org

We had problems with multiple sploggers, so we’ve done our best to protect the site. BP Registration Options was one of those measures. Does bbPress cause issues? It could be a splogger attempt, blocked by WangGuard, but the notification is still processed with empty user info?

Versions:

BP Version 1.9.1
BP Registration Options 4.1.3
Better WP Security 3.6.3
WangGuard 1.5.10