I would definitely go for that. It would be especially helpful for usernames and maybe email addresses, too. I’ll help you test it. I’ve got a few I could ban! 🙂
i am thinking of email and username but they can always clear their cookie and visit the site again, it is harder for them to do away with their IP.
That is why I still stick to IP
Yeah, that’s true. Partial IP’s would be great. Maybe you could set it to “You’ve been banned for one week” or something similar?
Very cool idea.
On the email address and username, I was thinking more along the lines of if they enter that into the comments form. For example if someone tries to use the username “somename” in the comments form, they can’t use it. Same with email address.
yap duration sounds good, was planning for that also.
The email part sounds abit harsh. LOL
> it is harder for them to do away with their IP
That’s why anonymizers are there.
Frankly if a user wants to visit your site then banning him by IP will work only in very limited cases (where the user is stupid).
If he is a spammer then he can as well use a botnet again defeating your IP address scheme.
If he is a referrer spammer then you can use any referrer bouncer plugins.
If he is a comment spammers you can use blacklist etc.
Well, spammers are easily foiled with BB and SK. I’m referring to those commenters who abuse their privelege of commenting as happens occasionally where I come from.
I’m interested in this because I have an open comment form where anyone can comment. Occasionally people get out of line and this would be a great plugin.
On the other hand, I think SK has a blacklist feature. You can blacklist IP’s there. Don’t know if you can use the wildcard though. It’s also got regex and regex content blacklists. But I’ve never used those with any success. Probably because I don’t know /regex/… 🙂
BB & SK are more complicated than simple ip blockers.
Normally ip blockers are already provided by your web service providers. You can stop them much earlier than from wp.
I would like to ask are BB and SK anti-spam plugins?
I see, sounds like the IP ban thing is not nesscassry then
Darn. I actually searched “wordpress ip ban plugin” to find this post. I don’t only want to be able to ban users from posting spam (which is what the anti-spam plugins are for) but I also want to just pop up a screen everytime a banned ip visits my blog with some sort of message saying they are banned to prevent any kind of activity on my blog from that ip (ex: voting on polls, posting in a shoutbox etc). I’m sure many people would use this plugin if it was available for the public.
~ Zoomrix
