Under attack by trolls!

[HeroicLife]

A troll has discovered my chat room and is ruining it for everyone. I know moderation is an upcoming feature, but is there any way to deal with him NOW? Can I get this IP address from the data store?

[phpfreechat]

currently non, there is no way ... sorry
However, moderation is in top priority.

Maybe a quick workaround is to defined a .htaccess password protection for your chat. And then give this access only to peoples you want.

[HeroicLife]

I wrote some ugly code to log all connections to a file, and ban users by IP. I'll share it if someone wants it.

[Nemako]

If your want to allow/deny only people with a defined IP address you can use a simple .htaccess file

Code: Select all

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName AccesRestreint
AuthType Basic

<limit GET POST>
 order deny,allow
 deny from all
 allow from .myschool.com
 allow from 10.0.0.1
</Limit>

[softwareNerd]

A feature idea would allow an architecture form which others can build plug ins. E.g., if one had a single class that supported:
- validate new user
- validate nick change

The default implementation could pretty much be blank for now.

An IPB (or phpBB) custom-version of such a class might do more:
- Validate new User: Validate against IPB tables, allowing only registered users, or allowing only users from certain groups. Disallow requests from certain IPs, and so on

- Validate nick change: Disallow a nick that clashes with another user's even if case is changed. Disallow a nick that is the member name of another IPB member