Andy Peatling
Boone B. Gorges
Paul Gibbs
John James Jacoby
Tammie Lister
Andrew Nacin
Today some primitive moderation functions were introduced to BuddyPress core to help combat unwanted submissions to your social network. These take advantage of the same Discussion Settings and illegal keys the WordPress Comments system uses to prevent them from being displayed immediately to your blogs’ audience.
This code currently exists in a new core component file named: bp-core-moderation.php
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-moderation.php
The Activity Stream is the first component to take advantage of this new ability. Any new Activity Stream updates that contain any of the illegal keys entered in your Discussion Settings will simply not be saved to the database. This is due to there currently not being a ‘moderation’ queue for activity stream items, which we may implement in a future version of BuddyPress.
The reason we are introducing this feature is simple: it’s your social network, and you reserve the right to keep your members safe from harassment and unfriendly interaction.
We’ll be testing this new feature over at testbp.org shortly, and hope you’ll test and report any issues you find!
Deepak, 
Arturo, and 1 other are discussing. 
shawn 12:40 am on November 6, 2011 Permalink |
was just reading the component and it lead me to a quick question.
Because bbpress will eventually be integrated and does allow guest posting, is there a way I would be able to hook into the moderation component to blacklist a post by a guest if there are links involved, or to strip them?
I like the idea of allowing guest posting in the forums as a test, and I am thinking that if I refuse to allow guests to post links, then maybe the spam bots will get bored.
Sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere as this is the first I have heard of this component.
Arturo 8:49 pm on November 14, 2011 Permalink |
Very good news JJJ, thanks!
I’ve a question about a basic functions for a social network… a sharing “internal” button for status update, blog posts, forum posts, etc, any plan for add it in our favorites social platform?
thanks!
Paul Gibbs 5:08 pm on December 3, 2011 Permalink |
Interesting idea. There was an early plugin that used to do this, but I’m not sure if it’s still maintained or not (I can’t find the link, quickly). Certainly it would make a useful plugin, and plugins that demonstrate the value of an idea is a good way of proposing something for inclusion in core.
Deepak 8:16 pm on November 26, 2011 Permalink |
That’s fine.I am looking for a buddypress plugin that displays mutual friends.I quite sure that there are’nt any.It would be gr8 if u include in it the next update of bp.