A question for moderators.

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I take it when you are a mod on here that you can see users IPs, see when they are connecting and trace them back to their ISPs?

Just out of curiosity if you had someone who was repeatedley trolling on the forum with different user names and different IPs after being banned again and again when you have established its the same douch by doing a tracert and seeing his ISP etc what would your next move be?

would it be to contact his ISP so they put a block on him being able to connect to the site?

 

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Now, look here, I'm a respected member of this forum...

 

lol, nah different guy, different site.

 

Your best bet would be to get the range of IP's associated with his ISP and block the entire range, unfortunately that also means blocking anyone else coming in from that ISP tho, unless of course he is lucky enough to have been allocated a fixed IP (whilst VM don't issue fixed IP's, my IP address tends to shift between 2 of them).

 

Not a chance. An ISP wouldn't listen to a request to block someone's access to an internet forum on the say-so of the moderators, owners or anyone else except the police. Even then it would only be because of something like child porn or hate crimes.

Besides, the majority of people have dynamic IP addresses - no way you can block them from logging in via a specific IP address if it changes randomly.

 

so in essence there would be nothing that can stop the troll?

 

Simon is spot on, really and thankfully most people get the message that they are not wanted, when they are banned.

 

Well this guy just isn't he has had 41 different user names with IP ranging from 124 - 20something he is from san diego and his ISP apparently is one of the most popular for that area and there are quite a few users on the forum from that same ISP.

At the moment mods are banning him as soon as he starts to re regsiter.

 

They can tell its him just from his user name and IP now since his user naem changes by one letter each time, currently he is on w oh and the fact that he puts in his sig that he uses dos as his operating system

I believe as AJ said above he is spoofing as he has had .com (original) .ocm and various others that make no sense. He obviousley doesn't have a life as he is regestering every few hours at all times of the day So as soon as he is seen to be registering he is being banned.

 

its not one those were you need to verify yourself through an email after registering but I believe he is using multiple valid emails and ones that have been picked up as being spoofed.

 

he is actually replying to threads if he gets on though and revisiting his old threads were his posts have been deleted and posting the exact same replies/statements.

 

That is some serious Troll!

 

Most message boards should have settings that could cut down on the guys ability to get registered and post. Most places would be able to set it so registering members have to be validated by an admin. Just keep a log of the IP addresses, user-names, and email addresses he's been using. If it looks like the guy then don't validate him. The admin could set it so new members must have their posts pre-approved. Give the guy a few more hoops to jump through and he'll probably give up.

 

Whilst that's true you have to remember that at times we get a large number of new members joining and you're creating a lot of work for mods.

As AJ said, probably a bot doing the registrations and maybe a human coming along afterwards when they get a valid registration.

vBulletin has a range of options for banning and checking new registrations but as it a very popular piece of software there will always be those that single it out for attacks. I run a gamers site on vBulletin and when we added a games arcade we just got flooded with bots registering so the humans could then come along and rack up high scores. Very annoying for the legit forum members. We just introduced more and more stringent joing procedures but it's a real pain to have to do it.