I don't anticipate ever having to ban any user from my forums, though they do get a bit rowdy (and a bit profane...) sometimes because these are band fan forums.
Anyway, though, for future reference: how can you ban users based on IP address, if IP addresses are almost always dynamic(ally generated) for each user? Or is every dynamic IP address recorded in the system, anyway, and just a standard set of IP addresses are used even when the IP is dynamic? Because I noticed that while I access my forums from 3 computers, I have about 15 IP addresses for me listed in the admin control panel.
Also, some of the moderators of my forums are about 15 years old. I've gotten the impression that one or two of them may be up to some mischief regarding access to various people's IP addresses, so I turned off that option for now. What is it they could/would do with those IP addresses, conceivably - if they were inclined to do anything with them at all? (They can't ban anyone because I haven't granted them that mod access privilege yet.)
Anyway, though, for future reference: how can you ban users based on IP address, if IP addresses are almost always dynamic(ally generated) for each user? Or is every dynamic IP address recorded in the system, anyway, and just a standard set of IP addresses are used even when the IP is dynamic? Because I noticed that while I access my forums from 3 computers, I have about 15 IP addresses for me listed in the admin control panel.
Also, some of the moderators of my forums are about 15 years old. I've gotten the impression that one or two of them may be up to some mischief regarding access to various people's IP addresses, so I turned off that option for now. What is it they could/would do with those IP addresses, conceivably - if they were inclined to do anything with them at all? (They can't ban anyone because I haven't granted them that mod access privilege yet.)
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