One of my MT sites has recently received a lot of unwanted attention from one individual. fisrt off he started making abusive comments on the site so I hit him with the inbuilt MT ip ban in Weblog Config. Unfortunatly the user using a banned ip address actually sees a message telling they are banned. I wish I had known that as he has now come back with a vengence causing me misery.

I would like banned ip's just not to get a comments link or not get the form so they cannot comment. Comments please.

Fortunatly on my server I am able to run php so I was going to put an ip redrect code in the start of every page and redirect the user to a random site using random.yahoo.com - but I have just discovered that yahoo have pulled the service! Would have been good though. If anyone know of another URL that gives a random url back please let me know.

An other option is to block those ip addresses from the server using server side code. Fortunatly for me again I have ip blocking built into my severs software control. However it is just changed to the http config and access files and there are plently of sites ion the web on how to do that.

An other option is to trawl through the comments everyday to see whats been added - yes this can be easier if you have the comments sent to an e-mail address. It would be even easier if the search included the comments which it doesn't seem to (or am I wrong???). It would be great to be able to search by ip address as well as e-mail address for the comments.

My final possibility, apart form just ignoring the problem, is to use the MT hack/plugin that allows you to verify all comments before they go live. However it does mean chaning the database tables and som eof the code. would be nice if this feature was built into MT and we could choose to turn it on if required.


Has anyone any other techniques or tips on how to deal with naughty commentors?

Hmm. I don't know php, but perhaps you could tinker with this script, which writes a link if an IP matches one specified. If you could change it's behaviour, to print if NOT equal (ie, to your troll's IP) , then you could use that to print the comments link and/or form?

Disenvowelment might take some of the wind out of his sails.

Haha cool plugin girlie !

http://www.blogger.com/redirect/next_blog.pyra

that'll give you a different blogger blog each time...

Disinvowelment is a great tool but will penalise other users of the same ip address - which is the main problem.

I liked the blog redirect but its too slow - you can see whats going on and again penalises other users of the same ip address.

What would be really good is to set a unique cookie everytime someone posts and if you decide they are being naughty then add that cookies unique number to redirect them to a 404 page so when they revisit they get a 404 or wherever you want to redirect them. The reason this may work for a time is that very few people check thier cookies - when was the last time you did? You would have to check to see if there is a cookie in place already to keep the same number.

Anyone care to have a go at writing this ?

I forward jackasses to Jerkcity TV, since goatse would be overkill.

I had forgotten about this: another option is to redirect them to the isgay.com site.

Example if they are called John Smith send them to john.smith.isgay.com.

The only issue is they are liable to get very miffed!