Do you allow your mods to see IP info of your members?

danecobain · Posted: 9/26/2005, 1:45 pm Post subject:

well i allow it because i don't really see a good reason why not so trheres no point in changing. Anyway half of my mods don't know what an Ip address is lol
_________________
Visit my site - www.danecobain.com

and join my forums at www.danecobain.com/forums

Ex0dus · Posted: 9/27/2005, 2:27 am Post subject:

hehe, with the way my hierarchy is set up, my mods are only really concerned with stopping the bleeding right then and there, they dont need to necessarily know if its a duplicate account. Its my admins job to hammer down and finish off the problem. Also helps that I usually have equal numbers of mods and admins (though not right now since 1 mod is able to cover the lack of problems were having with that sort of thing)

-Ex0dus

Garibaldi · Posted: 10/12/2005, 4:26 pm Post subject:

I let my mods see IPs, so that they can monitor things as well.
_________________
My Collector Car Forum

Cross_+_Flame · Posted: 10/12/2005, 6:50 pm Post subject:

I removed it to admins-only. Admins deal with user accounts, so only admins should be able to see user-account violations such as IP doubles. Moderators deal with topics and posters interactions in topics.
_________________
Cross+Flame

Visit my Religion & Interfaith Community

Garibaldi · Posted: 10/12/2005, 9:27 pm Post subject:

chrispian · Posted: 10/13/2005, 10:48 am Post subject:

I let mods see them as they may see a banned user log in. Only I can ban, but they can help spot people trying to sneak back in.
_________________
Chrispian H. Burks
451 Press

Capmaster · Posted: 10/13/2005, 11:26 am Post subject:

My mods all have the IP post button.

I have ModCP with the WHOIS hack as well, so the mods not only see all the IPs, but they can glance at ISP domains to beware of open proxies, for trolls and aliases.

They also have the cards so they can ban that way, or through the ban control module in ModCP. And they can issue yellow cards.

We started our forum under immediate attack from another site's members. They vandalized our member accounts (I had the 3-bad-try lockout hack at the time and they systematically went down our list and disabled several member accounts before I could ban their IP). They had repeatedly registered with aliases with the intention of stirring up trouble on my site. They pulled a few other stunts too, like substituting their rants via externally linked images, after they were banned ...hoping to catch the eye of some members. They are a hateful, sick bunch.

My mods have had greater responsibility from the start. Many sites only allow their mods to move/lock/split. Ours had to almost be surrogate admins when I'm not there. Needless to say I selected my mods VERY VERY carefully, and I trust them all implicitly. But I'm the only one with access to ACP.

But ....I have deletion permission set to ADMIN in all forums. For accountability reasons. The mods have a Closed Topics forum where they can move dead topics and whatnot.
_________________
The Conversation Pit
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps

Cross_+_Flame · Posted: 10/13/2005, 6:00 pm Post subject:

Alan · Posted: 1/5/2006, 3:00 pm Post subject:

I only allow myself to view ips, as stated above, the only purpose of them is for banning and only myself may ban.
_________________
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
- Rene Descartes

Radicalnut.com

Dog Cow · Posted: 3/28/2007, 6:15 pm Post subject:

All mods may see IPs on my board, though I don't think they do it with any regularity.
_________________
Dog Cow, administrator of Mac GUI City