Hi, quick question. In our forums, we have a bunch of folks who have registered with names like "1-cash-loan" in an obvious attempt to spam the top of the members list. There are 100s of them and we'd like to ban them all, is there a setting or a plug-in that would allow us to ban multiple accounts at once? Or do we have to do each at one time?
Block their IP address and Host name.
Admin->Member->Ban list->New Ban
Yeah, I do that, but, what I'm wondering is, is there a way to do a bunch of accounts at the same time? I don't want to have to do that 100s of times individually if there is a faster way.
One method is left ,
Install the Forum Firewall, Bad Behaviour mod and Add the anti spam question
And from another website install the "Block script".You may block the country also without any difficulty.Now a days spammers choice IP address.
Take a look at this
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=474496
Quote from: tigersfan on April 25, 2012, 09:26:11 AM
Yeah, I do that, but, what I'm wondering is, is there a way to do a bunch of accounts at the same time? I don't want to have to do that 100s of times individually if there is a faster way.
I'm going to answer with: It depends. If they are coming in from a few IPs or a few hostnames you can ban by that which will then ban them all. You can also create one ban and just add one ban trigger per.
I don't recall any screen that lets you check which members to ban and then ban them all at once.
We have actually been looking in to that ourselves. I think there are some concepts, maybe it will be released as a mod someday :)
/me has in the to-do list to clean-up a certain "ban_script.php" file and put it somewhere... O:)
ban_script uploaded here (https://github.com/emanuele45/tools/downloads)! :)
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