Question

Someone needs to be IP banned!

Answer 1

Mods, can you please forever ban whoever keeps setting up accounts with the name Raymond in them?

Answer 2

People are getting spammed with his tags and it is annoying them.

Answer 3

@Preetha

Answer 4

I believe only Admins can IP Ban, in other words, Mods have to contain the problem and gather ban-able evidence in order to enact the IP Ban.
It will be taken care of :) but it seems that the paperwork takes a while ;)

Answer 5

What is the username? And why should we ban him/her?

Answer 6

They had a whole bunch of different usernames with the name Raymond in them and he kept Spam tagging like at least 100 people on people's questions and then making his own questions and spam tagging.

Answer 7

for example: http://openstudy.com/users/shinebrightlikeadimon#/updates/534846a3e4b0dfc5ac70b250

Answer 8

@Preetha
Did you see the example?

Answer 9

Haha! Good thing I'm not included in the spam list, I didn't get any of the notifications...

Answer 10

By the way, @shinebrightlikeadimon seems like a really nice user ! ^_^ @jigglypuff314

Answer 11

Me neither. But still.

Answer 12

Yes; that person needs an IP ban. He/she keep making new accounts, so suspensions don't cut it.

I'm curious: has the troll stopped making new accounts?

Answer 13

For now..

Answer 14

thank you @dumbsearch2 what can i help with?

Answer 15

Nothing :) @shinebrightlikeadimon Just tell me if you ever need help :)

Answer 16

I just said you were nice because I had seen the post where the troll had spammed your question, and you took it rather nicely :) I've seen a lot of grumpy askers before !

Answer 17

Yeah he was out of control!

Answer 18

well thank you and i knew saying something mean would make him get attention so if you don't give someone attention they will eventually fly off so thats what he did at the end but i feel sad for him because what kind of person would do that like seriously were you that bored...?

Answer 19

IDK what his motives were. LOL all I said was, "IP ban this dude!"

Answer 20

I think Preetha saw it, but I don't know what she did.

Answer 21

She won't respond. :/

Answer 22

well... he stopped right?
Banning him won't do anything. and getting someone IP banned takes a long time.

Answer 23

plus he could easily create another account

Answer 24

@jigglypuff314 thank you for the nice testimonial

Answer 25

IDK, but what if he does it again?

Answer 26

then we'll ban him again...

Answer 27

we should just ignore him because if you give him attention he will not stop once he sees everyoe ignoring him he won't see the point of doing it and like i said he or she is doing to get attention so don't give it to them so they can leave and stop

Answer 28

Yeah, good plan. :D

Answer 29

lol you can learn alot from a 13 year old lol

Answer 30

LOL, so I can learn a lot from myself. XD

Answer 31

lol surround your self with people who can influence you in a good way and you'll be amazed what good things you might teach yourself

Answer 32

@thomaster Yeah, if he doesn't bother anybody. I agree with you; it's not worth the procedure. I've heard to IP ban you have to have an admin go into a database?

Answer 33

guys who can answer boy problem question for me

Answer 34

Eh?

Answer 35

@dumbsearch2 I'm guessing it's like a standard ban where you have to manually input the IP into some "ban.txt" file or something in the .htaccess file

Answer 36

so my friend really likes this guy and she doesn't know what to say to him so she let's me text him for her but he doesn't like her for the looks he likes her for the personality, well mine since i'm talking to him for her and when he found out he's all over me but i don't want to hurt her feelings so he keeps on texting and kiking me everytime and he just ignores her now what do i do

Answer 37

Oh..dear..O_O..

Answer 38

Aww.. I GTG, I'll be back later though.

Answer 39

yah i like him to but the only reason i'm not dating him it's because she likes him too and they were going to date so and she says she's fine with it but she is my best-friend so i know when she is and when she's not and she's not she only says she is so i can be happy

Answer 40

@JA1 if it was that simple, they could easily create some tool for us. Unfortunately it's currently a lot more difficult than just putting an IP in a file, at least so I've heard.

Answer 41

@thomaster

Really? Why would they do that, most websites can do that using the .htaccess file.

Answer 42

@JA1
Maybe so no one would ban people incessantly?

Answer 43

seeing as someone deleted all the mass tag comments from the example above...
http://openstudy.com/users/yesnoyesnoyesyesno#/updates/5348444be4b01a361877e9c0
you might wanna clear that one too?

Answer 44

#1984

Answer 45

@mipie13

That would be the case if it were in the hands of someone untrustworthy but the only people with access to the server files are admins.

Also, @thomaster

I didn't have time to get you a link but here you go:

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1699/Block+a+specific+IP+address+from+accessing+your+website#gs

This method is simple and works on all Apache server's (although, is OpenStudy even Apache based?).

Answer 46

OpenStudy uses Jetty, an HTTP Server and Servlet container written in 100% Java. It's an Apache server, as it's dual licensed under Apache and Eclipse.

Answer 47

I did a little investigating there that lead me to my conclusion :)

Answer 48

@dumbsearch2

HaHa, I should of just asked you upfront ;)

But this also means that we can IP ban easily with the .htaccess file, unless of course the original devs opposed it (I've found that ShadowFiend is hateful towards some methods )

Answer 49

Haha, he's very opinionated, but I've noticed that there is a method to his madness ;)

Answer 50

@dumbsearch2

No argument there, if he says something is no good I think I'll believe him ;) (Except in having used Scala, although maybe it wasn't his doing :/ )

Answer 51

Well admittingly Java is very flexible. The Lift framework (what OpenStudy is using) is quite feature-rich as well.