I.P Banning

[Vladimir Sebastian Bach™]

Are we ever going to get this? I'm tired of suspending the same person everyday. They just make a new email and sign up to spam muscle relaxer. Why? I have no idea, no one is gonna click it because it is a roleplaying website.

[Eric Suesz]

One other thing, though: What about visibility into IPs? Would that be enough? 

[Vladimir Sebastian Bach™]

Yes most definitely. If we can see the I.P numbers it might be easier to remove them via an outside application. I know there are ways to find I.P from email, but that process is a little to frustrating. Allow us to see the I.P and we can do the rest.

[the_real_macfly]

Visibility into IPs would be a definite improvement, as long as the load time and the usability trade-off of the corresponding tool would be less than what getclicky etc. has to offer.

Its a tricky business.  There are quite some offers around for reporting IPs, none of them outstanding.  An online database tool for visible IP would be nice, from my point of view. 

[Arnold Burian]

Just use cloudflare. It's free and only takes a few minutes to set up.

[Speed Racer]

i signed up for cloudflare, and i do like it. however, im always afraid to block the ones from the US, im afraid that it may be labeling a regular member a spammer lol. seems to work great for our standard spammer countries, though...

[Vladimir Sebastian Bach™]

I'll check it out, thnx.

[Dave Walkerden]

I think about 99% of the spammers I get on my website use yahoo.com email addresses. I'd be happy to get a script/code that detects the phrase yahoo.com and automatically puts them on a 'waiting for approval' list. They NEVER show up on the NING spam watchlist so somethings not working. My spammers go through the signup process and then leave comments on member pages asking the member to contact them for some sort of love scam. It's really irritating because some members think I've sold their email address to spammers because they get a notification sent to their email address.

[Eric Suesz]

I wanted to let you know that we have just released a new tool that allows you to ban IP addresses and block email domains. I know you requested this a long time ago, so you may not be interested in it anymore, but I wanted to let you know that it is now available.

Since this is quite an old discussion, I may simply close it out.