Solved IP banning in Kunena

I have a brand new Joomla/Kunena site with JomSocial and a few other goodies. My site was previously using VBulletin, which I am glad to leave behind me.

Nonetheless, it was familiar, and this new CP is not.

First, as an admin, where do I go in my CP to do IP bans?

I have about 15 global mods that I would like to have the ability to IP ban members... Is there a setting where I can enable them to do this? Frankly, I'd like to set up a one step process by which if ANYONE is banned, that the first three sectors of their IP are automatically banned at the same time.

Thanks in advance for any answers. I'm glad to have found this resource!

G'day, jpfrancoeur, and welcome to Kunena.

I will keep the answer short and simple. There is no IP banning in Kunena.

There may, however, be other extensions for Joomla that allow IP banning.

Thanks. Wow, really? No IP ban? That's disturbing. I had so many spam attackers on my last forum. The only way to really pull the weeds out by the root sometimes was to ban their IP. I notice that you use CAPTCHA on each individual post. I would like to try something like that myself, but my existing members would probably track me down and hang me by my own entrails! They're chewing me a new one right now because I haven't figured out how to set the forum up where the Quick Reply box is just sitting open at the bottom of each thread.

I can't seem to find WYSYWYG settings either. Some of the complication may be added to by the fact that I have JomSocial. It seems to supersede many of the functions previously performed by Kunena.

I have a steep learning curve ahead of me. I'm just glad to have found a place to get some support.

There must be countless thousands of references on the Internet debating the effectiveness of banning by IP; I do not intend to add another one here. :laugh: The current conventional wisdom is that banning by IP is one of the least effective ways to counter spam attacks, for the simple reason that spammers use spoof IP addresses to launch their assault.

WYSIWYG is a different subject and we have an entire topic devoted to it. Please remain on-topic when using this forum.

The subject of this topic is "IP banning in Kunena". There is no banning by IP in Kunena, but there are possibly other extensions that can do that.

Kunena allows you to ban users by their Joomla username.

Thanks! That was very helpful.

Sorry for venturing off topic. Just pointing out that my very life is at stake. My forumites really own their forum!

In the interest of "staying on topic", I have started two separate threads on the various questions I have, but I don't see either one of them any more. We're they deleted for some reason?