by Guest September 2nd 2013, 2:27 am
I had the same problem on my forum. Some other forums have also had problems with the report abuse footer link. See post here-
https://help.forumotion.com/t126923-remove-the-report-an-abuse-footer-linkYes it would be better if FM recorded the IP address of the user who sends the contact for or fill in the report abuse link. Then you could just ban the IP address.
At the moment the only way to know a users IP address is if they post. Or if they are viewing the forum as a guest to catch them online the same time as you are.
You could simply ban the range of IPs from guests or ex-banned members. Though I don't know if FM enables you to ban by ISP. I disabled the contact form on my forum as i did not like the captcha.
What you could do is ban the email address and maybe disable the contact form. Then just give your members a private email address,(sent by PM not posted public on the forum,) where they can contact a forum admin or moderator if they need to. That's what I did on my forum.