The "I Found A Spammer" Thread

We went a long time with no Chinese spammers, and now this is two in the last week. We need to shift all power to the rear deflector shields. And angle them. And get me the hydrospanners!

 
This guy is a spammer. Where's he from?

I miss being able to look up the IP address on a member. That's another change I really dislike on this version of IP.Board.

 
He's from Moscow.

I didn't realize Mods can no longer see IP addresses. I just did a search on the Control Panel, and I don't see anywhere to enable that. Let me take a look at the templates and see what I can come up with. No idea why IP.Board would remove that feature - makes no sense.

 
Lance, can you post a screen shot from any regular member's post? I'm looking at a template that seems to indicate that you should be able to see the IP.

zoogies, the template is the Post template under the Topic View category in the Look and Feel. The code I'm seeing is:

Code: 
<if test="postIp:|:$post['post']['_show_ip']">
				<span class='ip right ipsType_small'>({$this->lang->words['ip']}:
				<if test="postAdmin:|:$post['author']['g_access_cp']">
					<em>{$this->lang->words['ip_private']}</em>
				<else />
					<if test="accessModCP:|:$this->memberData['g_is_supmod']"><a href="{parse url="app=core&module=modcp&fromapp=members&tab=iplookup&ip={$post['post']['ip_address']}" base="public"}" title='{$this->lang->words['info_about_this_ip']}'>{$post['post']['ip_address']}</a><else />{$post['post']['ip_address']}</if>
				</if>)
				</span>
			</if>
 
To clarify, if they post we can see the IP from that post. But if they've never posted in a forum there's no way to look up their IP. This person had never posted before, so I couldn't find out if he was local or foreign.

In the old version we could look up a person's user name in the Mod control panel, and that would also give us their IP address.

 
beepartedge is another. Just joined today.

Do these jackasses check to see when I'm driving home from work/cooking dinner/absent from the boards before they make their accounts and post their spam? I swear to God they show up the instant I leave work, and I can't nuke them for an hour or more. Frustrating as hell. :steam

 
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Was just going to mention beepartedge. They're nuked! Not all of Russia, of course, because of mutual assured destruction. By the way, did you delete the spam from the first guy, Igor? He doesn't show as having any posts/status updates.

 
I click on the "Flag As Spammer" button on their profile, and that automatically nukes all the posts, Status Updates, etc. from the person, plus prevents them from posting. Neuters them, in effect.

It's like our very own little Red Button. But only to be used in cases of sure emergency.

3d-red-button.jpg


 
knapplc said:
igortrueap is another spammer. If he's also from Moscow/Russia, we should look into nuking all of those IPs.
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I've wild-carded the IPs. Meaning, I've left the first two octets as "valid", but any attempts to register using an IP with the first two octets will fail. Unfortunately, all three of the spammers had IPs with different octets for the first two. Still, let's see if that helps a little.

 
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