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[Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Thread Started on Jul 15, 2006, 8:17pm »
Suggestion: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP

Outline of idea: Have a JS confirm or (if necessary) another page to ask for confirmation if the IP address you're banning is your own.

How you would like it implemented: After clicking the almighty ban button either a JS confirm will pop-up and ask if you're sure you want to ban this IP address because it is your own or you would be taken to another page saying the same thing. Note: Don't forget to check ones with wildcards.

Why do you want it added: This would help to decrease the number of support issues.
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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #1 on Jul 15, 2006, 8:19pm »
I think just not allowing the admin to ban themselves would be better, there's no real reason people would want to ban themselves.
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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #2 on Jul 15, 2006, 8:21pm »
That was my original suggestion but in the last round of suggestions someone mentioned what if you were on some other computer (say someone you don't want on your board) and you wanted to ban that IP right there.
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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #3 on Jul 15, 2006, 8:45pm »
How many times do you use someone's PC that you want to ban though?

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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #4 on Jul 15, 2006, 8:48pm »
It could be a work/school network you're banning...

Meh, last time the confirmation had much stronger support than simply preventing it.

Just include on of them and I'll be happy. :)

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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #5 on Jul 16, 2006, 2:55pm »
I am in agreeance with CMD. The admin should not be able to ban himself/herself at all.
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Re: Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #6 on Jul 16, 2006, 4:52pm »
It should be that any user cant ban the ip they are currently using. Saying the IP of the admin cant be banned is a bad idea, and is why it currently doesnt stop you.

Say for example the last user logged in as the admin was a malicious user. You wouldnt want them not to be banned just because they know the admin passwords. IP bans should always overide anything, main admin or not. The only constrint would be that if the ip you are trying to ban is 1 you are using at the moment, it should deny it
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #7 on Jul 16, 2006, 9:37pm »
That is a good point, Martyn. It would be much better if users could not ban their own IPs. That would probably solve it since it's usually done accidentally.
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #8 on Aug 1, 2006, 9:13pm »
I have a confesion, i accidently banned my own IP also (oops)

All i need is some kind of pop-up box saying this this will also ban you, cuz i needed to wait a few days for the ultimate admin to un-ban me.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT THIS!
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #9 on Aug 3, 2006, 3:27pm »
I am against any sort of hard enforcement that forbids an admin to ban or not ban a particular IP address, especially the main admin, who should be able to ban whoever he pleases.

A "soft" prevention in the form of an alert would be more acceptable...and since IP information is session sensitive anyway, any admin who wanted to ban himself could figure out a way to do so even if self-bans are hard forbidden.
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #10 on Aug 4, 2006, 5:51am »
The main problem with banning IPs is the dynamic ones (is that what it's called?) which AOL and other service providers use, which switch everytime you connect to the internet. That's why an admin might have the same IP as a spammer.
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #11 on Sept 18, 2006, 6:46pm »
I move that this not be implemented in javascript. Browsers with javascript turned off will not be able to do this confirmation.

IMO a redirect to a "force IP ban" is better.
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #12 on Oct 23, 2009, 9:56am »

Jul 16, 2006, 4:52pm, Martyn Dale wrote:
It should be that any user cant ban the ip they are currently using. Saying the IP of the admin cant be banned is a bad idea, and is why it currently doesnt stop you.

Say for example the last user logged in as the admin was a malicious user. You wouldnt want them not to be banned just because they know the admin passwords. IP bans should always overide anything, main admin or not. The only constrint would be that if the ip you are trying to ban is 1 you are using at the moment, it should deny it


It would be good for those of us that are kinda moronic sometimes when we're having a bad day and do accidental things like deleting something or someone we don't want to without even thinking :(
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #13 on Nov 5, 2009, 5:44pm »
I wrote a code for this:

http://wormocodes.com/index.cgi?board=codedb&action=display&thread=15
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Re: [Accepted] Confirmation Before Banning Own IP
« Reply #14 on Nov 12, 2009, 1:17am »
Um ... ya ... why would someone wanna ban themselves?!? Huh?
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