Topic: Bulk Banning

[tigersfan]

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?

[shubha]

Block their IP address and Host name.

Admin->Member->Ban list->New Ban

[tigersfan]

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.

[shubha]

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

[Thantos]

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.

[CoreISP]

We have actually been looking in to that ourselves. I think there are some concepts, maybe it will be released as a mod someday

[emanuele]

* emanuele has in the to-do list to clean-up a certain "ban_script.php" file and put it somewhere...

[emanuele]

ban_script uploaded here!

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