How does it help the tracking IP's of registered users by LQ moderators
LQ moderators track IP of users who post in LQ.
How difficult it is and how does it help? |
It's just a case of recording the source IP of a post when they are submitted.
It has plenty of uses, geo location etc, but the most common use is to find spam coming from the same source addresses under different account names etc. |
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Whether it helps? Hmm... helps with what?? It may help to re-identify users who caught your attention earlier; it may reveal someone using multiple accounts concurrently to look like several persons; it may be a hint for judging the user's geographical location (though this is not very reliable). Don't forget, however, that the IP address of many private dialup lines may change frequently - daily, within minutes, or even with each single request. On the other hand, there may be legal issues in some countries. Storing IP addresses may be forbidden, because under certain conditions they can be tracked and traced back to the owner of the dialup connection. Some consider that an indecent intrusion into people's privacy. So whatever you do, be careful. [X] Doc CPU |
For more reference the moderators do NOT track IP addresses, that'd be really hard work. The software running the site does it for us. And we, as standard moderators can not see that information, only Jeremy can.
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IP-address information is used by many site-driving packages as one of many ways that are used to battle spam. Which, for nearly every site these days, is a "battle of the 'bots'" far in excess of what you see as a user. If these defenses were not in place, I think that most sites would not be useful.
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It's a site of linux experts, for linux experts(including) and by linux experts. They can use/create/develop everything that has been asked here in these years. It looks like their web server is apache, db is mysql or may be mongo (no-sql) and server side language is php or may be perl. But we never know how deep the site is, may be they are using BigTable for db and functional programming like Scala or Haskell for web development. webmin might not have as administration functionalities, LQ admin may have. Number of Graphs and Pie charts and Reports are there in the admin site just like stock market sites. There is data like disk usage, memory usage, load because of number of users, stress, performance, Networking, IP based user data, country based user data, Browser based, OS based, many terms even I can not imagine. When they can detect your distro, whatelse they can not do? They know the meaning of security, not only achieving it but pursuing too, they know they are linux site that's why they are not loose like one of the most popular distribution's forum site which was hacked sometimes before. They are silent but it doesn't mean they are idle. They know how to improvise, adapt and overcome. They are number one in Linux. They are LQ. (had been too much emotional. should not be taken much seriously. Moral : can't live without LQ) |
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In addition to vBulletin, LQ includes WordPress, Drupal, MediaWiki, and some other stuff. Notice what these all have in common with vBulletin: they're all PHP: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3774706 LQ's web development team is just Jeremy himself, with some help from one other person: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5108729 If LQ starts using Scala, Haskell, BigTable or MongoDB, then Jeremy would announce it. |
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in <Suggestions & Feedback> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
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I'm not sure what you're actually asking here, but as Chris said mods do NOT track your IP in any way. The information is stored on a per post basis, predominantly for use in spam heuristics. As noted, most of our sites are PHP (although http://linuxexchange.org/ is Python and django). I've made a variety of posts/mentions about our infrastructure, which is currently nginx and Percona/MariaDB on Linux.
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One thing that I've always wondered about is, since many ISPs dynamically allocate IP addresses to users, can those IPs really be blocked? The same goes for logging as well. Apart from geo-location, does an IP address really denote a real user? Suppose a user on dynamically allocated addresses has made a 100 posts each from a different address, what good does collection of that data actually do? I mean, there are a lot of sites that I use that log IP addresses, but since there is no telling if I may ever get that IP again, is it really a privacy concern?
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On my blog, I both use Akismet and have a bunch of rules to block spam comments, but I do still get a few; the amount, though, is cut down to a manageable level. I used to self-host my website and took a look at the logs a couple of times. Apache logs every action a browser takes--every get and hit it makes, and the incoming ip is part of that record. More to the point, there is nothing secret about an ip address; it's as public as a street address. Anyone who thinks there is any secrecy to it deludes himself. The internet is a public place. |
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