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Why Ban a User?

As a moderator, you have the ability to ban individual users. Those who are causing trouble by purposefully vandalizing the site or inciting flame wars are the usual candidates for such punishment. After they are banned, they can no longer make any contributions on the site.
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Ban a User dialogHow To Ban a Registered User

You may ban a registered user by going to their profile page and clicking on "Change Permissions". There, you will be given several options, one of which is to ban the user.


How To Unban a User

You can unban a user that you have previously banned by going to their profile page and clicking the Unban button. You can use the Banned accounts report to see a list of banned users.
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Banning IP Addresses

Many acts of vandalism are not committed by registered users, but anonymous ones. It is possible to ban an IP address the same way you can ban a registered user. However, we urge you to do this only as a last resort. Many Internet service providers only assign a certain amount of IP addresses, meaning that more than one person could have the same address. Essentially, you could be banning potential, and innocent, users of your site. However, extreme cases may call for it.
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Steps for IP banning anonymous editors:

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  1. Click on "complete history" near the bottom of the page.Page History Link
  1. Find the anonymous edit of the user that you need to ban
  2. Click on their IP address (a series of numbers such as 127.0.0.1)
  3. Click on the Ban button

Steps for IP banning anonymous commenter's:Banning Users - Wetpaint Central

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  1. Find the anonymous post of the user that you need to ban
  2. Click on their IP address (a series of numbers such as 127.0.0.1)
  3. Click on the Ban button
Unbanning an IP Ban
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Unbanning an IP is just like unbanning a user. Go to the IP account that was banned, and there should be a unban button on the right. Hit unban and the user is un-IP banned.
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Note: If you do not have Moderator, Administrator, or Creator status, you will see "anonymous" instead of an IP address.



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~Rogue~{Delta}_75 removing accounts and other things 2 Feb 2 2011, 12:23 AM EST by CryingDove
Thread started: Feb 1 2011, 10:00 PM EST  Watch
Hey, I was wondering if I would be able to remove unwanted accounts from my page.
~Rogue~
I just started using wetpaint and I was wondering if there was a way for them to send a request to me and I accept them into the site. Plus I wanted to know if I would be able to just remove/ kick the kid from the site so his name no longer shows up as part of the site. Thanks!
Stay Strong, Live Strong, Be Strong,
~Rogue~{Delta}75_DarkAssassin
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Kazakoff Dealing with Spammers 3 Nov 6 2010, 12:41 PM EDT by Naru2008
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I am set to only allow people who register to write and someone is continually registering new accounts and posting spam on it day and night (under their personal pages) Each day I ban the idiot's new pages; I have also asked them to stop; but nothing stops them.

I either need to have them banned by IP address (but there is no Complete History under their page) or I need the ability to authorize who can in fact register to be a writer (and then authorize individuals who are legit - and ban them if they abuse their privaledges.)


What can be done to stop this nonsense? It is occuring in the ANTS wiki (http://ants.wetpaint.com/) under Members.
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Kinrift A question (page: 1 2) 24 Oct 2 2010, 8:58 PM EDT by dcollins52
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On a site I administrate, we suspect a person of breaking the rules by having multiple simultaneous accounts to increase the importance of the site and prompt the admins to update the site more.
Of course, we on the site prefer hard evidence to plain guesswork, so we are attempting to decipher the IPs of the various suspect accounts to find out whether they are registered to one user.. Is there a way of finding out the IP addresses of non-anonymous accounts without hard work?
I thought that it would be best to ask here where the experts are instead of going on a wild goose chase trying to find out the truth. Any answers for me?
~Kinrift
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