Stopping spammers messaging.

[taerese]

A user created an account and sent spam messages to more than 300 members in less than 10 minutes. This is clearly not a copy and paste. It is like something executed with a software after account creation. They rush number of messages per minute to even bypass incase there is a limit set on outgoing messages per minute. Is there a way to set a limit on outgoing messages per user per hour or even down to limiting outgoing messages per minute even if they attempt to use a software to rush them? Could a captcha even have worked in this instance that the user is using software to send?

[taerese]

Found some code on buddypress forum to restrict users from sending private messages to those who are not their friends. Thats the fix I use for now. You can close this tkt if there is no other suggestion. Thanks.

[taerese]

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[Anshuman Sahu]

updated code with admin check :   add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', function( $array ) { if ( friends_check_friendship( bp_loggedin_user_id(), bp_displayed_user_id() )  || is_admin()) { return $array; } else { return ''; } } );

[taerese]

I replaced the code with the one you provided by it didn't work. Admin couldn't contact members.

[Anshuman Sahu]

please try adding this given code in your wplms-customizer.php file in wplms customizer plugin :  

add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button', function( $array ) {

if ( friends_check_friendship( bp_loggedin_user_id(), bp_displayed_user_id() )  || current_user_can('manage_options')) {

return $array;

} else {

return '';

}

} );

[taerese]

It works. Thanks.

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