Originally Posted by Bubble #5 (Post 2447170)

Is there a way to have it send an e-mail to the admin, instead of posting a thread?

Would be so much easier to manage, and would catch most peoples attention sooner.

Originally Posted by iraqiboy90 (Post 2447199)

Let's say;
- I have 200 users
- There are many duplicated IPs
- No more posts has been added or registration for a week.

then, does this mod create the same report 7 times?

ps. I have the gold version

Originally Posted by iraqiboy90 (Post 2447207)

In other words; The same report 7 times....
Is there any option to exclude those numbers/IPs from showing on further reports if nothing new happens to them?

Originally Posted by Bubble #5 (Post 2448266)

All of these reports are being moderated.

How do I stop them from being moderated?

Didn't see a setting...

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2448347)

It is anti-spam software moderating posts, either a 3rd party mod or if you have an Anti-Spam Service enabled in options.

If a 3rd party mod you should be able to whitelist the user who makes the posts.

Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2448352)

I am the user making the posts (and an Admin) but none of my other posts get moderated.

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2448452)

There is a "Day of Week" option drop-down in the Scheduled Task editor.

Originally Posted by spankaveli (Post 2448913)

I see a way to whitelist certain IPs but is there a way to whitelist IP blocks? (for example, the 166.x.x.x block since that is used by AT&T wireless?)

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.

Originally Posted by Skyrider (Post 2517448)

This might be a bug (or missing feature) but.. Right now it looks like in ACP... posts IPs are getting compared with all IPs (post and registration ones) ... while registration IPs are getting compared ONLY with other registration IPs.

For example at our "Boo" user and another profile using same IP.



Is this an issue?

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2517475)

I'm may not be fully understanding the question- but looking at the SQL query it is clear the only IP addresses being checked in the posts report are the post IP addresses. It would be impossible for that query to check against registration IPs as those IPs are never returned/mentioned in the query.

If "Boo" is being returned in the post report it means the other username returned with boo has also posted posts with the same IP boo has posted from during the report period.

Originally Posted by Kesha (Post 2521962)

Hey BOP!

I just installed your mod and I'm currently attempting to run it from the Admin CP (Options section) to try it out. I have a private forum set up, which is only accessible by Moderators and Admins. The issue is, when I click the Run Now button, the resulting page is simply "Duplicate IP Report by BOP5" followed by the word "Done" on a new line.

I saw a similar issue in this thread by another user so I decided to try some of what you asked him to do, with no luck. (disabling the Spam-O-Matic plugin, setting days to check to 1 & 1, etc.)

MySQL Version is 5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, and PHP version is 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.5.

The forum itself is a large forum. Over 100,000 accounts are registered and over 1.9 million posts are in the database.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: Just figured it out... Apparently, the file that I uploaded did not have the correct permissions. After setting +rw on the file, it runs as promised and this mod runs now. Sorry about that!

Originally Posted by BJJBJ (Post 2522670)

I've got the exact same problem as above but his fix didn't work.

Originally Posted by Kesha (Post 2522821)

Just wanted to provide another update. I've had a chance to install and use this mod now, and let me just say that it works surprisingly well with my forum (being a larger forum). The only thing that I wish this modification had, is a duplicate account checker upon registration (with similar style alerts as this mod) but for the price I paid (nothing), this mod does it all for me.

Thank you kindly to BOP5 for this wonderful mod.

Originally Posted by Faskis (Post 2561624)

I've found that the scheduled task for this only runs if done manually, but does not run at the scheduled time (it does list a future date/time). I can't find anything about it in the error logs. Any help would be appreciated.

Originally Posted by MarkFL (Post 2561637)

I have this set to run on the first day of each month, and it has always done so without fail.

Any additional information regarding how you have the product scheduled to run will be helpful to the mod author when providing support. :)

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2562023)

It adds a scheduled task to vBulletin's list of scheduled tasks that can be seen in the Admin CP under Scheduled Task Manager.

Like all scheduled tasks they are only triggered if there is regular traffic to the forum because they are initiated on a page load where the cronimage is triggered which is in the footer template.

If no one visits the site at night the task never gets triggered.

There is a window of course, if someone comes soon after it should trigger, but at some point it just won't trigger.

Try setting it to run during a busier time of the day on your forum perhaps.