Forumotion to Include IP on registration email

Shakespeare wrote:I'll be voting yes- I could completely understand how this would be useful.

DragonMaster Jay wrote:Amazing you've worked on this since 2010.

DragonMaster Jay wrote:Spam attacks are not easy to deal with and having that IP address right away can save a lot of work.

I wish a final verdict would be issued on this.

anthonyHobbs wrote:I'm going to say yes to this idea. I too have had members register again that were banned but without the IP address, is hard to tell if it's a new member or a banned member trying to get into the forums again.
This feature REALLY needs to be implanted, it would help the admins and mods alot with forum security (sorry for the caps)

SLGray wrote:

anthonyHobbs wrote:I'm going to say yes to this idea. I too have had members register again that were banned but without the IP address, is hard to tell if it's a new member or a banned member trying to get into the forums again.
This feature REALLY needs to be implanted, it would help the admins and mods alot with forum security (sorry for the caps)

Even if you know the IP address, it will not help to stop banned members from registering again because some IP addresses change. I notice my IP address on my forum is not always the same.

musket wrote:I voted yes as well

Andrea Borman wrote:Yes this is much needed on the forums.
As you say at the moment admins cannot see the IP address of new users unless they post.
On my forum I had problems with banned members registering on my forum again.Even though I had account activation by the admins enforced.
Because we could not see the IP of the new user until they posted and it was only then we found it the IPs matched that of a previously banned member.So we had to ban them again,then they would come back with yet another account.
Another problem is that if you have to ban a member and delete all of their posts for whatever reason. You have no record of their IP address as it is only recorded in their posts not in their actual account.
Having this feature could change all that.

Andrea Borman wrote:Well they already have this on Proboards forums and also on Free Forums.org I read.
As I said it would be helpful if they had this on FM.Then we won't have to wait for a member to post to see their IP.
Also if you have account activation by the admin enabled as I have. If you know it is a previously banned member,then you know not to activate their account.
I would rather be able to see the IP on registration than wait for them to post something.
Though even then, I have noticed that the first few posts did not show the same IP, but the later ones did.
Probably because they were using a proxy to hide their IP in their first few posts.
Also most people have Dynamic IPs which constantly change making banned members harder to spot,if they come back again.

anthonyHobbs wrote:I'm going to say yes to this idea. I too have had members register again that were banned but without the IP address, is hard to tell if it's a new member or a banned member trying to get into the forums again.
This feature REALLY needs to be implanted, it would help the admins and mods alot with forum security (sorry for the caps)

The form below was submitted by IP Address: ***.**.**.** on April 6, 2013 at 12:32


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.... (and then it lists the form response fields)

Hello,

The account owned by "*******" has been deactivated or newly created, you should check the details of this user (if required) and activate it using the following link:

(profile link here)

The account was created by IP Address: ***.**.**.** on April 6, 2013 at 12:32

SophieDophs wrote:

musket wrote:I voted yes as well

Thanks Musket

SophieDophs wrote:

Andrea Borman wrote:Yes this is much needed on the forums.
As you say at the moment admins cannot see the IP address of new users unless they post.
On my forum I had problems with banned members registering on my forum again.Even though I had account activation by the admins enforced.
Because we could not see the IP of the new user until they posted and it was only then we found it the IPs matched that of a previously banned member.So we had to ban them again,then they would come back with yet another account.
Another problem is that if you have to ban a member and delete all of their posts for whatever reason. You have no record of their IP address as it is only recorded in their posts not in their actual account.
Having this feature could change all that.

Andrea Borman wrote:Well they already have this on Proboards forums and also on Free Forums.org I read.
As I said it would be helpful if they had this on FM.Then we won't have to wait for a member to post to see their IP.
Also if you have account activation by the admin enabled as I have. If you know it is a previously banned member,then you know not to activate their account.
I would rather be able to see the IP on registration than wait for them to post something.
Though even then, I have noticed that the first few posts did not show the same IP, but the later ones did.
Probably because they were using a proxy to hide their IP in their first few posts.
Also most people have Dynamic IPs which constantly change making banned members harder to spot,if they come back again.

Thanks Andrea.

I'm having a problem lately with certain people registering for an account and if I had their IP address, I wouldn't bother activating them (yes, I have Admin activation enabled, too).

Of course, if they have dynamic IPs, it might not necessarily be helpful, but many people do have Static IPs (I do) and many people are potentially troublesome to a forum but not tech savvy enough to mask their IPs, so having a notification of their IP at the point of their registration would be extremely helpful.

(I'm hoping someone on the staff will take note of this!)

SophieDophs wrote:

anthonyHobbs wrote:I'm going to say yes to this idea. I too have had members register again that were banned but without the IP address, is hard to tell if it's a new member or a banned member trying to get into the forums again.
This feature REALLY needs to be implanted, it would help the admins and mods alot with forum security (sorry for the caps)

It really does need to be implemented, Anthony, I agree.

Hi, kindly use the EDIT button instead of double/triple posting, you can also use the multi quote button. Thanks