[wp-forums] Blocked user will not accept being blocked

[Ipstenu the Half-Elf]

That should be something released as a plugin for WP with open 
registration, if possible :) Call it Ban Locker!

On Tue Feb 11 14:33:53 2014, Otto wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Ipstenu the Half-Elf
> <ipstenu at halfelf.org>wrote:
>
>> Otto, he's using Yahoo, so I don't think that would help in this case
>> unless you're proposing blocking Yahoo.
>>
>
> As much as I relish the idea of blocking Yahoo, he's not... Look closer at
> the fake accounts. :)
>
>
> Would it be possible to see "This IP has made X accounts in 12 hours. It's
>> a spammer. Auto-b-tag" ? That would catch most serial accounters as they're
>> generally not that clever.
>
>
> We do have a registration speed limit that is based on IP. Sometimes I have
> to turn it off for WordCamps. But it's mainly focused on stopping spambot
> registration, so the threshold is a bit high. It doesn't b-tag them, it
> just blocks them outright with a nice "Registration blocked. Please stop."
> message.
>
> I checked, and yeah, that IP has already exceeded it quite a bit more than
> would be reasonably expected from a sane person. He stopped creating new
> accounts because he actually can't, for right now.
>
> -Otto
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