banned user still posting

[steeltape]

i banned a spammer by his id forever n yet he is still able to post threads everywhere.
How exactly does ban system works in smf?

[Illori]

what do you mean you banned him by his id? did you ban him by username then delete the account? it has been reported that if you do that the ban will no longer work. have you look into some of the anti-spam mods on the mod site?

[steeltape]

yes i ban him by username and didn't delete the acc. yet he still coming and posting like everybody business.
yesterday i deleted the acc and today he came posting as usual..
quite irritating too

haven't look into any spam mods. im using rc5

[SlammedDime]

When you created the ban, did you actually check one of the ban options?  When you go to the ban screen, I believe none of the options are checked by default (username, ip, hostname, etc)... if you didn't check anything, you didn't actually ban him.

[steeltape]

hi sorry for the late reply.
yes i did tick ban by username .
i have installed spam mods captha thing .. it kinda works for now
thanks guys

[adrianbj]

I have just had this same problem - ban reads:

This user is currently affected by the following bans:
User cannot access forum as a result of ban: "jolin"

But they are still posting - never seen this until this particular user. I am running 2.0 final

[Illori]

please open a separate thread for each issue, this thread belongs to someone else and is marked solved.