An unknown person keeps enjoying my site

[sergeim]

I got 4 messages saying delete member has joined the form now I tried to look for him he's not there can you see what's going on because he did it very often can you find out what's happening sergeim.proboards.com

[Kami]

Mar 19, 2024 14:55:36 GMT -8 sergeim said:

I got 4 messages saying delete member has joined the form now I tried to look for him he's not there can you see what's going on because he did it very often can you find out what's happening sergeim.proboards.com

I mean this very kindly, but your forum was created in 2008; have you looked over all the functions and features of the admin panel during this time? ProBoards has very thoughtfully provided a lot of tools in the admin panel that can do a lot of the things you've been asking.

Including this one; if you go to the admin panel and look under the "Security" option in the menu, you should see an option that says "Security Log". Using this, you can see who does what action on your forum — creating / deleting accounts, creating / deleting / editing posts and threads, modifying your themes and boards, you name it. You should be able to see if the member is constantly deleting their account or not. You can also use the drop down option at the top of the list to filter the Security Log to only show specific actions — if you select "Members" on this dropdown, you'll see all the creation, deletion, and edits for member accounts and see who has been deleting that particular account.

ProBoards can't really provide any insight as to why an individual may do something like that, they can only confirm what appears in the Security Log.

[sergeim]

OK it says the person's name but apparently they're using the same account that has been deleted off of form because they did a spam account so why they keep on rejoining the form

[sergeim]

My notifications say deleted member and that's all that says now cause they joined so many times how do I remove the notification saying that? help me

[Scott]

sergeim - highly unlikely it's the same person. I'll take a look to make sure nothing nefarious is occurring.

[sergeim]

Thank you so much for having a look because this is a big problem

[sergeim]

I looked at the security logs and there's a lot of deleted members and all different people but still how many notifications from the peoples

[Kami]

You will still get notifications unless you disable them in your settings (this will disable new registration notifications from ALL new members not just problematic ones), even if the member later deletes their account. They still joined, so the notification is generated when they join. It doesn't get removed if they delete, because even if they delete, they were still a new member however briefly.

As a note, you may want to enable restricted registrations in your admin panel so that you have to approve new accounts. If you see an account with similar details as to the accounts that keep getting deleted, you can reject the registration and you don't have to deal with the constant deletions out of nowhere. It may also help discourage whomever is doing this from continuing, if they have to wait for you to approve their account before they can do anything with it.

[sergeim]

Oh I see interesting

[sergeim]

In the security part it says 500 members have been deleted but when I click on ITIT says account gone

[Kami]

Mar 19, 2024 15:45:13 GMT -8 sergeim said:

Oh I see interesting

I updated my post with a potential helpful tip just FYI :)

[sergeim]

So ask tell me this why does this unknown person keep on joining the site and removing themselves off the site why would someone join it and then remove themselves what's the purpose of doing that?

[Kami]

Mar 19, 2024 15:46:16 GMT -8 sergeim said:

In the security part it says 500 members have been deleted but when I click on ITIT says account gone

That's expected behaviour -- if the account is deleted, then you will receive an error message saying the account doesn't exist, even if you can click on the name in the security log.

The reason for this is each registration creates a new user ID. You can still load any user ID you want in your address bar, but the account will only appear if the user ID is still valid. If it's gone, the link will still "work" but you will get an error.

[Kami]

Mar 19, 2024 15:48:29 GMT -8 sergeim said:

So ask tell me this why does this unknown person keep on joining the site and removing themselves off the site why would someone join it and then remove themselves what's the purpose of doing that?

I can't really tell you for sure why someone might do something. If I had to guess, it's either people trying to spam or people trying to annoy you.

That's why I suggested enabling restricted registrations. That way if someone is trying to annoy or spam you (or multiple someones), they can't get any farther than registering. They won't even be able to delete, and you can reject their registration.

[sergeim]

Spamming up my notifications with with this I just like to know why