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sross

05-22-2008 11:56 AM

ban troll, troll re-registers, repeat x 10.. do i have any legal options?

I have identified the jerk. I know his isp, his personal email, etc. He resides in a .ch domain which I believe is in Switzerland. The guy is relentless and has obviously made it a game to 1up us. I'm trying not to let it get to me, yet I am also growing furious and would like to.. well.. kick his f'n head in. So.. I am wondering is there anything at all that can be done? I'm thinking -no. At the moment I have him on Tachy, he's made 20 posts and has no idea but I'm sure he'll eventually catch on then start evading Tachy. grr..

calorie

05-22-2008 01:15 PM

What about blocking certain IPs for a bit? Maybe something like the following at the top of the vB init.php file will do:

Code:

$troll = '123.456'; // a or a.b of a.b.c.d



if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) && preg_match('/\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}/', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))

{

        if (preg_match('/^(' . preg_quote($troll) . ')\./', $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))

        {

                exit();

        }

}

Vtec44

05-22-2008 05:59 PM

Turn on moderation for new users, or have the first 10 posts of new users to be moderated before they can have all normal functions. It works for us :D

proproject

05-22-2008 06:58 PM

Sorry if this is too obvious, but where do you set moderation for first 10 posts like that?

King Kovifor

05-22-2008 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by proproject (Post 1528226)

Sorry if this is too obvious, but where do you set moderation for first 10 posts like that?

Make two usergroups:
1. "Moderated"
2. "Normal Users"

The first "Moderated" group will have their posts moderated within the group permissions. Then use the promotion into "Normal Users" when they have reached 10 posts.

sross

05-22-2008 09:00 PM

With 30 or so new users a day I couldn't manage the moderations. This guy is also using a lot of anon proxies. At the moment the only way we can catch him is with the AE detector.

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