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Blocking IP addresses

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Prior to the recent upgrade to 3.2 from 3.0, i had a butt load of IP addresses that were banned from joining and that list did not come over from the old install. I cant seem to find where to edit this on 3.2, or im just too tired and missing it. Not sure where to find that list on the old install either.
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It's in the database, but blocking IPs wastes resources and is ineffective. Give me 5 minutes in your ACP and I will block all your spam forever.
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Should i make a username for you or give you my details?
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Furball Zen wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:03 am Should i make a username for you or give you my details?
You can do either. Or change your password, tell Steve the 'new' one, let him fiddle about and then change it back to your normal one afterwards.
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Banning an IP is only useful if you have out of control poster/spam bot that is re-registering with same IP. In that case you would ban for a few days. That would stop the bot but the human poster will usually move onto proxy server etc.

One thing to bear in mind about banning IP's is it may be used by hundreds or even thousands of people, a college campus for example. The other issue is it often changes for the person using it so the next person that gets it would be banned from your site. That is why you would only use a ban of very short duration.
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Create an account, make it a Founder and PM me the username and password. You can delete the account when I am done.
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thecoalman wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:49 pm Banning an IP is only useful if you have out of control poster/spam bot that is re-registering with same IP. In that case you would ban for a few days. That would stop the bot but the human poster will usually move onto proxy server etc.

One thing to bear in mind about banning IP's is it may be used by hundreds or even thousands of people, a college campus for example. The other issue is it often changes for the person using it so the next person that gets it would be banned from your site. That is why you would only use a ban of very short duration.
I banned entire countries, i dont care lol. It worked for the most part.
stevemaury wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:02 pm Create an account, make it a Founder and PM me the username and password. You can delete the account when I am done.
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Banning anything by IP is pretty much a waste of time and server resources.
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stevemaury wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:02 pm Create an account, make it a Founder and PM me the username and password. You can delete the account when I am done.
Could you help me please, my spambot situation is out of control on my forum? I'd be willing to create a founder account, etc for you.
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first, let us have the link to your board so we can test.

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Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:57 pm first, let us have the link to your board so we can test.

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What you are doing now is completely unnecessary. PM me a founder account and I will stop your spam.
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stevemaury wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:09 pm What you are doing now is completely unnecessary. PM me a founder account and I will stop your spam.
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Thank you for those who have commented in this topic. 8-)

Over time, we had developed a substantial IP ban list. Some of these bans were historical from many years ago due to users who tried to circumvent bans - at the time they served a purpose but those users are long gone. As an anti-spam measure the list is useless. Even if implemented at a server level, it would seem a waste of resources. As a test, I cleared the IP ban list and I got a measurable improvement in server performance. Spam bot registrations have not become a problem since.

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Nope, didn't work, spammer is back! wow, how lame.
Any way to set this up so no one can post unless i "approve" it? I've tried and no matter how I set it up, this guy gets through?
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