Banning random ip addresses permanently is a pretty innefective solution to stopping users from accessing the site, and is extremely annoying when you try to access OSBot on your phone and get the message that "You are banned". I'm not sure how many ips you've banned but I have encountered this issue too frequently. Banning mobile ip addresses is even more pointless, seeing as the user can just restart their phone's networking and get assigned a new ip.

Most people are given dynamic ips by their ISP, and so their ip will change eventually and they will regain access to the site. Or they can just use a proxy or VPN to circumnagivate their "ban".

Banning a user's account, and temporarily banning their ip works fine to boot them from the site and prevent the casual user from creating a vader account quickly, but can we please have ip addresses unbanned after a period of time? You can still keep a log of the ip to associate with future "vader" accounts, although again this isn't really that helpful, due to the points I listed previously.

 

 

Combination of ip address and mac address would be better. If it's possible to find the mac address of the client with the forum software/webserver.

Most people don't know how to change their mac address.

I use my phone and am on Osbot constantly through my mobile data  (unlimited) and fortunately have not run into this issue

They just hate you fren

28 minutes ago, Prolax said:

Combination of ip address and mac address would be better. If it's possible to find the mac address of the client with the forum software/webserver.

Most people don't know how to change their mac address.

 

I don't think it would make much difference, it only takes a quick google search to figure out how to change your mac address.

 

20 minutes ago, AMMO said:

I use my phone and am on Osbot constantly through my mobile data  (unlimited) and fortunately have not run into this issue

 

Lucky you, I have encountered the issue dozens of times with my mobile network provider.

 

9 minutes ago, Lost Panda said:

They just hate you fren

Maybe

Edited November 15, 20178 yr by Explv

What a dumb avatar you have!

8 minutes ago, Explv said:

Lucky you, I have encountered the issue dozens of times with my mobile network provider.

I use US Cellular ?

IP bans are usually only applied when people continue to vade/scam on the same IP address over and over. If you find a range/block of IPs that is banned please contact a staff to see what can be done.