Question Detect multiple requests (posts in one topic) by IP address

Hi everyone

I run a small business networking website and have partnered with Google South Africa - we now offer our registered members a Google Adwords voucher.

We distribute the vouchers by having the users request a voucher in the forum.

I am now having a problem whereby people will create multiple accounts on my site in order to try and get a few vouchers.

Is there any way that I could easily detect if someone (the same IP address) has requested a voucher already (posted in the current topic already).

Perhaps a plugin is available?

thanks,
Dylan

Matching identities against IP addresses is always a little unreliable (especially because people can - and do - change IP addresses as often as they change their clothes). There is one way you could check. Go to your site backend and use the Kunena Forum » User Manager facility; look at the user about whom you are suspicious and click the IP tab. If that user has used the same IP address as another user, you may have found an issue you want to take further. Of course, many different people (different members of a family, for example) can use the same computer ... so I'm not sure if this really addresses the problem. Good luck

Thanks, I will try that.

sozzled wrote: Of course, many different people (different members of a family, for example) can use the same computer ... so I'm not sure if this really addresses the problem. Good luck

I wouldn't worry about that too much as in most cases only 1, or max two members of the family would be running a business, so in that case I can just read their profile info to check that they are clearly different businesses.