Been happily running IPGate for a while...but there's really so much you can do against an idiot with a dynamic IP address. Even if he gets caught in IPGate he can delete his cookies.
When we see suspicious behavior we run his IP on http://whois.domaintools.com/ and check that it resolves to adsl-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.dsl.abcdef.domain.net
Is there a way somehow in snitz of IIs to check for the presence of abcdef and ban it ?
Maybe another option would be to extract a list of IPs and run them in some type of tool to bulk resolve IPs ?
I haven't looked at this before, and I don't know what the load is on the server for it ... but it seems that you could track the ip also via the db and then cross-reference that table when a post is submitted. If the ip turns up, then set the new post to be moderated instead of just being posted free and clear.
I understand that on a dynamic ip that you could block honest ips, so this way you could add an extra step of precaution. Place a notation in your policy as well as in the "This post is awaiting moderation." notice stating the fact that occasionally posts are moderated for quality assurance purposes, and then folks won't be as offended if their post "seems" randomly selected to be moderated. The honest ones may even feel an added sense of security like "Wow, this place really cares about their forums!"
Seeing how cookies can be deleted, this might help alleviate your problem while also deter the problematic poster from getting satisfaction from working around your code and feeling great about it. Just a thought.
Does anyone have some input on this? Is this too much of a cost against the server? Are there other road blocks to this method?<
That would be a good way to "not offend" indeed, actually I ran some queries yesterday and did find a guy on the same host who was not the usual troublemaker so blocking him out wouldn't have been fair.<
Someone posted a mod that that allows you to set a forum to "Moderate New User Posts Only" and only allows a users post to appear after a set number of posts otherwise the post needs a Moderator to approve it.
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Posted - 06 December 2008 : 16:58:25
