Netherlord Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 I would like A way to ban guests by ip! I want guest posting since not everyone wants to sign up to a news board but will comment if guest posting is open. But in its current state it is unusable due to problem guests ruining it for everyone. Since you cannot ip ban a guest my only option is to close guest posting when i do open it. Now i know someone here is going to answer with, thats a moderation issue. While i agree to a certain extent. we do need a way to stop certain guests from posting. and an ip ban itself is not a fullproof measure due to the innovation of vpn's and proxies! but it helps a great deal since the guest will just eventually get bored and it would give me and many others 1 tool to fight against them... because right now no defence exists to fight problem guests! other than to just close guest posting. (we can delete posts but when they make 100 posts a night and 2-3 people are doing it... then it quantifies the job of out mods to fifteen higher than normal) probably no change will come on this but well i'll try! Anyone else agree?
Netherlord Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 17 hours ago, Rhett said: Use htaccess to ban the IP Only issue with that is only i can do it... and i can only mod my site for 7 hours a day due to having 2 jobs, 2 business's and working on 3 computer games soooooo yeh..... But i guess i could see if one of my mods is trustworthy enough but that seems risky.
Rheddy Posted January 24, 2016 Posted January 24, 2016 @Netherlord, what you're going to find is that you're forums are going to be infested with spam. I used to allow unfettered guest posting until IPS3 was released. This was when my community started getting attacked by spammers, spambots and hackers. I then decided to allow guest posting but put those guests on "moderator approval" for all guests. It eventually became such a problem that I disabled all guest posting. I just became tired of having to deal with the crap of having to sort through every posted message that a guest would post. What I discovered was that 99% of the messages being posted by guests were messages for porn sites, pharmaceutical spam advertisements and what not. Very few of the messages were legitimate postings for actual forum content. The easiest way to deal with guests is to disable guest posting. I'm sure there are others who can back me up on this one.
Netherlord Posted January 24, 2016 Author Posted January 24, 2016 1 hour ago, Morisato said: @Netherlord, what you're going to find is that you're forums are going to be infested with spam. I used to allow unfettered guest posting until IPS3 was released. This was when my community started getting attacked by spammers, spambots and hackers. I then decided to allow guest posting but put those guests on "moderator approval" for all guests. It eventually became such a problem that I disabled all guest posting. I just became tired of having to deal with the crap of having to sort through every posted message that a guest would post. What I discovered was that 99% of the messages being posted by guests were messages for porn sites, pharmaceutical spam advertisements and what not. Very few of the messages were legitimate postings for actual forum content. The easiest way to deal with guests is to disable guest posting. I'm sure there are others who can back me up on this one. yeh thats the conclusion i came too... just wished i could allow it.
Rheddy Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 I was forced to disable guest posting simply because when I upgraded to IPS3 (I was running 2.3.6 when IPS3 started getting developed), I discovered that my site was being bombarded with spammers. I don't know how it happened but I suspect that when IPS3 was released, the software platform became too tempting a target for spammers. This was never an issue when I was running IPB from 1.3 through 2.3.6. I was just spending too much time moderating content posted by guests.
Nathan Explosion Posted January 26, 2016 Posted January 26, 2016 Give your moderators group ACP access and restrict it down to allow them to use the 'Ban Settings' and then they can add the IP addresses there - or does that have zero effect on guests?
Netherlord Posted January 27, 2016 Author Posted January 27, 2016 On 26/01/2016 at 0:52 PM, Nathan Explosion said: Give your moderators group ACP access and restrict it down to allow them to use the 'Ban Settings' and then they can add the IP addresses there - or does that have zero effect on guests? It has zero effect! which kinda confuses me as to why. Banning by ip seems standard on all software!
Nathan Explosion Posted January 27, 2016 Posted January 27, 2016 Hmmmm.....anyone fancy sending me their IP address via PM for a quick test on my IPB 3.4.9 site?
Marcher Technologies Posted January 27, 2016 Posted January 27, 2016 48 minutes ago, Netherlord said: It has zero effect! which kinda confuses me as to why. Banning by ip seems standard on all software! Is guest caching enabled? If so, the only option *is* what Rhett suggested. Checking that for cached pages in the script would require a query, something the guest cache at this time completely avoids the need for, intentionally, as that is the point of the guest caching = no database connection needed to generate the page.
Martin1980 Posted January 27, 2016 Posted January 27, 2016 Probably CloudFlare could be a solution for you, as they are banning 'suspicious' IP addresses.
Netherlord Posted January 27, 2016 Author Posted January 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Martin1980 said: Probably CloudFlare could be a solution for you, as they are banning 'suspicious' IP addresses. Im currently using cloudflare. It affects spammers for sure. but problem members with grudges or human spammers no way.
Rheddy Posted January 27, 2016 Posted January 27, 2016 If you have a webhost, you should have the ability to ban entire IP addresses or even IP blocks. I use Linux on my site so I'm able to block entire IP ranges as well as IP addresses.
Netherlord Posted January 28, 2016 Author Posted January 28, 2016 23 hours ago, Morisato said: If you have a webhost, you should have the ability to ban entire IP addresses or even IP blocks. I use Linux on my site so I'm able to block entire IP ranges as well as IP addresses. Yeh i can... its more an ease of use thing and who i trust issue for staff... I wish it was doable from the acp.... because i do not want to give access to my server to any of my staff.... its a risk i cant take.
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