Re: Some User Had Registered Several Times, Different Nicknames And E-mails, But The Same IP Address
Cracker Tracker settings? I am not sure as well either as we speak. I just moved all files to another hard drive and have yet to get my stack working. I will look at it this afternoon and see if I can figure it out. I know it is there..... or so I think
**UPDATE**
Ok I took a look at this sooner than later. I know me real well and it would have been 3 months from later today before I thought of it again.
So, I got to digging through the
ACP. What I found is in Cracker Tracker, we can set a setting to allow only 1 registration per ip UNTIL another person with another ip registers on the site. That may slow a spammer down.
Now here is the issue and why I see it as a possible reason why phpBB never implemented this feature.
Say for example we have a website called itsallgood.com itsallgood is an awesome sight! Now I register. Now my wife wants to register. Now my 3 kids want to register...... and on and on. So by blocking a ip from registering, you may block potential users to your aspiring website.
I'll toss out one more example. In my house there are 3 of us using my house Internet service. 3 of us have a Facebook account. How many of us would have one if only one per IP was allowed? This simply is not a good thing to do. Spammers is a fact of life on forums and as such we have to deal with it accordingly. We ban them.
Speaking of ban or using a single registration per ip; it is easy to defeat. I have used no less than 20 or 30 or more IP addresses logging on here. My ISP refreshes my external IP randomly. If you ban a user, he or she can reset their router and get a new IP and re register. They can use a proxy server, etc.
So the very long answer to the very short question is, yes you can sort of do it although it is only to slow them down.
Login to
ACP/Configuration/Ctracker Settings From there scroll down to
Registration Protection System and enable IP watcher.
This is only going to slow them down. if you only have 1 registration per day, they can only register that once instead of 8 times. FIRST, ban the offending user, then do the CTracker setting. They are going to come back, but with this setting enabled, they will only get to register 1 time..... unless they are using a proxy or reset their router.
I hope that helps some. Take care and have a fantastic day.