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woolyg25
Starting Member
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 Posted - 24 April 2003 : 08:38:15
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I'm getting pretty inflammatory comments from a new member and wish to ban him. I have his IP & have deleted him, yet his posts remain - i dont want him to come back as he is being very abusive..
anyone tell me how i can ban his IP ? |
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gelliott
Junior Member
USA
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
3859 Posts |
Posted - 25 April 2003 : 09:03:26
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| But if he's on a dial-up account, he could be getting a completely different IP every time he dials in. Even some broadband accounts it would take 2 seconds to change IPs. |
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gelliott
Junior Member
USA
268 Posts |
Posted - 25 April 2003 : 12:27:37
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| This is why I've not installed these mods on my forum - I'm not convinced it'd prevent them, and judging by the number of pages of questions under the IPGate posting it must be easy to get the install wrong. I'll probably change my tune if it ever becomes a problem for me, but at the moment I'm heavily screening my user base in the first place. Since I run a neighborhood association forum, I know where each of these guys lives, so I'm not faced with the problems some of these other admins are... |
* The optimist says the cup is half full. The pessimist says it's half empty. But the engineer knows the truth - the cup's design is incorrectly sized.  |
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AWD_ENVY
Junior Member
103 Posts |
Posted - 25 April 2003 : 14:54:36
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| I added IP banning, IP range banning, and banning by cookie(helps with dialup people) |
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gelliott
Junior Member
USA
268 Posts |
Posted - 25 April 2003 : 15:54:31
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| Tell me more about banning with cookie - do you have some asp code you could post? |
* The optimist says the cup is half full. The pessimist says it's half empty. But the engineer knows the truth - the cup's design is incorrectly sized. |
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jfitz
Junior Member
USA
345 Posts |
Posted - 27 April 2003 : 23:26:29
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1. Don't delete him - lock him out. That way, he will at least have to re-register with a fresh email (assuming you use email validation), and you can catch his IP address and lock out any repeats. I had one user that kept creating new registrations with throw-away email addresses, but his IP address gave him away (it was a cable modem address), so I ask my ISP to block that IP address. Poof - end of user. As far as he is concerned, our web site does not exist, nor will it ever as long as he uses the same IP address. He finally got tired and went away.
2. Put him on probation and make all his posts be moderated. It's pretty easy to do with one data base change and some small code changes. |
--Jördan
It's a wasted day if you don't spend at least part of it flying upside down. |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
3859 Posts |
Posted - 27 April 2003 : 23:42:21
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| jfitz, just in case you miss my other request - any chance of grabbing that code ? |
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jfitz
Junior Member
USA
345 Posts |
Posted - 30 April 2003 : 21:49:41
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laser, Sorry for the delay - I only just saw your request. I'll try to isolate the code and post it as soon as I can.
My User Probation Mod is posted here:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43921 |
--Jördan
It's a wasted day if you don't spend at least part of it flying upside down. |
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alex042
Average Member
USA
631 Posts |
Posted - 19 May 2003 : 09:26:00
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In IPGate, when cookie ban is set, once a banned IP attempts to access the banned page, IPGate places a cookie on their computer and checks for that cookie the next time that computer tries to access the site so even if their IP changes, the cookie will reveal that they are supposed to be banned.
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
3859 Posts |
Posted - 20 May 2003 : 00:04:03
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Thanks for that alex042, I never knew that but I hadn't had the time to read through the code - looks like I'll be installing IPGate REAL quick  so my users can get back to instant registration.
Edit: Just thinking about this a bit more (even though I'll try at home anyway). If the user tries with a different IP and the cookie catches them out, does the new IP get logged as well ? What happens if the user removes their cookies ?
(maybe this belongs in the IPGate thread, but I'll some further testing - you've sparked my interest again) |
Edited by - laser on 20 May 2003 00:40:40 |
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