Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Auto-Moderate Evading Banned Members (when they make new accounts)

Banned Members Filter by Rafael Lopez
03/10/2009 (m/d/y)

CURRENT VERSION: 2.0

PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLICK INSTALL!

This mod will try and block banned members from evading their ban through making a new account.'

::: CHANGE LOG :::
v1.0 - original release
v2.0 - First update (released: 04/08/09 (m/d/y))
--Mod now sets cookies on login which are not destroyed on logouts. These cookies can be used to help catch evaders
--Mod now supports notification through:
----New threads
----Private Messages
--You may choose whether you want users to be moderated or auto-banned depending on how they are detected.



Here's how it works:

Upon registration, vBulletin will search for all the users who have used the IP that the current person registering is currently using.
It will then check if any of those users are in the BANNED usergroup.

If there are no user matches, or if no user matches are in the banned group then the plugin will continue to check for set cookies which belong to banned users.

If IPs match, then it either auto-bans the account or it moderates it. This is set through vBulletin Options. If IPs are set to
moderate and not auto-ban then the plugin will check for cookies as well - if it finds a cookie belonging to a banned user and you have it set to auto-ban on cookies
then it will AUTO-BAN the new account even though it had found an IP which is set to moderate. Higher punishment "wins".

This has the POTENTIAL to slow down registration dramatically on forums with a LOT of posts. For reference, it does not add any noticable time for my forum which has about half a million posts. So you should probably be okay.


::: Installation :::

Extract product-moderate_user_if_banned.xml
Upload product-moderate_user_if_banned.xml by going to ADMIN CP --> PLUGINS AND PRODUCTS --> MANAGE PRODUCTS --> ADD/IMPORT PRODUCT
If you are upgrading then you should set "over-write" to yes.

And you're done!


If you liked this mod you might also like my others:

Select Postbit [https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203324]
Shared Admin Notes [https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203326]
Internal Forums Closed Message/Reason [https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=207855]
Multi-Quote / Edit Integration [https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=210620]

[1F42]

Where can I find the thread and pm text to edit?
Otherwise installed and early yet but seems to be great thanks

[onealien]

Originally Posted by rickrichards82

i had a problem with a troll a few years ago that would use IP proxy sites to get around detection. he was able to post a few disruptive messages each time before i could be certain it was him and could ban him. eventually i realized he used the same password all the time so i would compare all new users passwords to the encrypted password .

where can u see passwords? never knew that...

other question is...i thought that vb saved all 'banned ip's' automatically? not the case?

ill try this as well...thanks...

[mplode]

I'd also love to see a 4.x update for this. This was a fantastic thing to have on 3.8

[Alan_SP]

Didn't test this mod on vB4, but I tested two others that also report clones (one should also be able to prevent banned users to register altogether) and they all work with no problem on vB4. PHP code is basically independent on vB version. Problem are templates (used in frontend, not in the backend of vB). So I guess this mod works too.

[HolyKiller]

This works flawlessly on 4.1.x !!

[LBGSHI]

Sounds awesome; installed.

[adpar]

hello anyone tried this in a forum with

38.000 members 1.000.000 posts (3.500.000 impr per month 500.000 unique per month)

and

17.000 members 1.000.000 posts ( 700.000 impr per month 40.000 unique per month)

?

i run 3.8.2.

[1F42]

Yes i installed it on a similiar sized site with more posting though. I dont see how the data you supplied has any impact on the mod anyway,? so im not sure what you are asking?

[BigFooty]

Installed, but seems to have no effect at all. We've tested it across browsers and locations and it does not pick up new users registered from the very same machine as banned users.

[z3r0]

Originally Posted by BigFooty

Installed, but seems to have no effect at all. We've tested it across browsers and locations and it does not pick up new users registered from the very same machine as banned users.

Strange, we're using it on 3.8.7 and 4.1.4 and it's caught 100's