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I run an active forum and the best tool has been to automatically compare the IP addresses of banned users (registration IP and all post IPs) against any future
by danneu 14y ago
I run an active forum and the best tool has been to automatically compare the IP addresses of banned users (registration IP and all post IPs) against any future registration/post IP addresses and disable the subject when a match is found.
Trolls will eventually forget to use a proxy and will immediately find themselves autobanned again. And all the IPs they used are added to the blacklist.
It's pretty funny. My forum would've been unmanageable without this.
- ajuc 14y agoThis of course also punish innocent users on the same set of dynamic IPs that the troll uses.
- brazzy 14y agoThat would be a problem for a forum with a huge audience, but if there are only a few hundred active users, the probability of punishing the wrong person should be acceptably low.
- danneu 14y agoThe script publishes a message in a Moderator-only subforum that looks something like "Troll555 appears to be evading his ban on usernames: TrollMan, TrollDude, TrollSmith." A few thousand members log in every day and I've rarely had a problem.