| iraqiboy90 |
10-01-2013 03:57 PM |
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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5
(Post 2447209)
An email option is a good suggestion I will try to add in a future version. The debate whether a post or email is better is just going to be personal preference. I like keeping records as posts since I have a forum for all sorts of automated reports- but I can certainly understand the desire to have it by email instead.
In this respect the Gold and Free versions work the same.
Yes and no... The same posts will be re-reported if they are within the look back window of both reports, but each day that goes by the oldest duplicates will fall off the report. So if your post look back window is 7 days on the day 1 report you will see all duplicates in the last 7 days. But by day 4 you'll see only 3 days of duplicates as by your example there have been no duplicates for 4 days at that point.
Honestly... If you have all that many duplicates there's a problem... If your site is small then people are definitely using "Alter egos" - If you have a very busy site your look-back window would be a lot shorter, just because there are too many posts to query at once. So on a super busy forum I would image a look back window of only say 3 days instead of 7 or 30. A 3 day window means about 33% of the reports are new each night.
For example on my OT forum which has about 100 active members on any given day and maybe 300 unique members in a month, I do a post look-back of 7 days. After cleaning up all the initial multiple-accounts found by this mod, sometimes weeks go by with no duplicates reported- what is is just the occasional mobile users who wind up on the same IP.
Whitelisting specific IPs or usernames are an option but no way to not show duplicates previously reported if they fall in the same look-back window.
I suppose you can edit the scheduled task to run once a week instead of every night, then set a look-back window of 7 days, so each time it runs it is completely fresh data that will only be reported once, but in that case you could go an entire week before being notified about a duplicate account.
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Problem is that at one time my forum was reporting the wrong IP of the users. It was instead reporting an internal IP, the same one for everyone, for almost 6-9 hours.
In this time, there has been created multiple posts, which is why my report is long and got to many post numbers in it.
Manually editing the IP (by removing them) from the DB (manually, I guess) will be lot of pain. Therefore I see that whitelisting that IP will be a better option, if there is no other option you can recommend.
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