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Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#4773 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Akismet ignoring the "Allow Akismet..." setting

Reported by: aaclayton Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.7
Component: Activity Version: 1.6
Severity: normal Keywords: needs-patch
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Description

On my site I have fairly strict user registration requirements, and therefore I have the setting Allow Akismet to scan for activity stream spam set to DISABLED (unchecked).

While poking around my database today I noticed something really disturbing. Despite Akismet (allegedly) being disabled, bp_activity_meta entries are being created and processed for every activity item that is registered. To make things worse, Akismet is even flagging certain activity items as spam with a 100% false positive rate!

I would suggest that if the "allow Akismet" setting is not selected, then Akismet shouldn't interact with the bp_activity_meta database at all.

Change History (2)

#1 @DJPaul
14 years ago

  • Keywords 2nd-opinion removed
  • Milestone Awaiting Review → 1.7
  • Severity major → normal
  • Version 1.6.1 → 1.6

​https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php#L53 -- missing bp_is_akismet_active().

Er. Oops!

#2 @djpaul
14 years ago

  • Resolution → fixed
  • Status new → closed

(In [6734]) Make BP respect the value of "use akismet for activity checks" preference. Fixes #4773

This bug was introduced during 1.6 development.

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