Blocking someone
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Topic: Blocking someone
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Blocking someone
Date Posted: 17 March 2006 at 9:54pm
| I seem to of gotten a flood of racists and idiots on my site at the moment, it's quite frustrating blocking their IP's especially as they are using dialup and it keeps seeming to change, any way of blocking these users more effectivly? |
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 12:48am
| If they come from a country were you don't get any normal users you could just block the whole country. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 1:12am
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You might also want to look at the code Borg uses here for the bad word filter and just trash any post that contains x number of bad words. - don't give them any message, just make their post disappear. Giving them a message about their behavior just encourages them to try to beat the filter. Another way to discourage them is to route them to a non-existant post confirmation page - e.g. post_confirmation.asp - they'll see a 404 for that url and assume your site is hosed.
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 3:38am
| Thanks for the tips! Blocking an entire country isn't really an option, but the 404 error simulation is a pretty neat idea. |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 10:15am
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or just accecpt the post but replace it entirely with repetation of IM AM STPUD.. it will frustate the heck out of them ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 18 March 2006 at 1:53pm
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The problem with replacing the posts is that it just encourages them to try to beat the filter - how many ways have you seen viagra spelled in spam email? Your filter would always be one step behind. Better not to let them know you're filtering and let them assume your site is hosed - sooner or later, they give up. -------------
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 1:50pm
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i get a lot of IP spoof and access attempts from chinese IP range on my proxy server..poor chinese trying to beat the censorship by scanning for intermediate proxy networks in wrong country!! ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:47pm
Is this on a forum? You see, I had the same problem and I still do... I just keep blocking the user's IP range but I don't think it works well because they could always use free proxy or get a different IP from their ISP... I tried free proxy myself..it works for them! I once suggested in the v8 suggestions topic to implement a better banning system but it didn't seem possible. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Gullanian wrote:Posted By: Susan0722
Date Posted: 19 March 2006 at 7:58pm
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Do you require an active email address to verify registration?
I had a problem in the past, but since I changed the reqirements, I don't have that problem.
Sure I have people who sign up then never activate, but that's a lot better than getting over run by idiots.
I haven't had to ban anyone for a long time, but I always ban their email and their ip if I need to.
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Posted By: Misty
Date Posted: 20 March 2006 at 6:46am
| Perhaps you could build a web application that would require you to approve the posting before they would show up on the web site. I had to do that for one guest book application because spammers kept on posting. The postings won't show up unless they have been approved. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 20 March 2006 at 11:21am
| Yeah that kinda sucks though but is the best way. |