henryguy79 - reported to moderator

acey

freaking idiot !!!!😕 spam!!!!

pyro

I reported him too...And I bet a few others did as well...Very annoying... :mad:

edshuck

me too

The beauty is that from the admin screen menu select mass prune then enter the user name and zap all the posts from that user at once.

I ran his posts and that is all he has done.

Then leave him a member and deny all privileges!

Then he is not only silent but will remain so.

kriek

Ditto =)

jpmoriarty

are there steps you can take (out of interest) that stop him from reregistering as somone else? How effective (if it's available) is IP blocking, or do people still get assigned fairly random IP's these days?

pyro

I would think dynamic IP's are pretty popular, so I doubt that it would work...I'm wondering how he did this...Manually? The forums have a 60 second post interval, I believe, so it must have taken him quite some time to do this, if he did it manually...hmm...

spirp

Actually, random IP's is not only fairly common, but is the general rule for all ISP's dealing with a huge amount of users. As you all probably know, IP addresses are finite, that is, there's only a limited number available (which is true even with IPv6).

Most ISP's today also uses NAT (Network Address Translation) and PROXY-functions to accomodate multiple users behind a single IP-address. My point with this is that it's never a good idea to block an IP-address.

The worst case-senario is quite simple: if you and the guy you blocked uses the same ISP, maybe you've blocked yourself out.. Not very efficient... 🙂

// Olle

edshuck

On my forums, which is also vBulletin, I have blocked one link to porn and one pyramid scheme. With just the lock up. What I suspect is that they register and go away probably never giving the site any more consideration.

I surely hope that is the case.

peace and best to all