Dolphin Tutorial

How to deny unwanted visitors to access my Dolphin community?

After managing your social network for a while or slightly after it become a bit more popular, you will surely find out the need to restrict certain visitors from it. Nevertheless you want to restrict spam bots, abusing members, fake registrations or trolls, it is all being done from the one and the same place – “Tools” > “IP blacklist”. There you can block either a single IP or a whole range, as well as unblock previously blocked IP addresses.

Let we say that you suspect a visitor with the IP address of 11.11.11.11 to be responsible for couple of fake registrations, as well as takes advantage of the internal messaging system to abuse other registered in your social network members. Here is how such a rule will look like:

A quite common is to have, sometimes, a whole network of abusers to try attacking your social website. Let say, for the example, that you suspect that the network segment between 11.11.11.11 and 11.11.11.50 is systematically abusing your network. A rule for blocking it will look like:

Once added, rules can be modified and deleted from the menu below the form which is used to add them:

You can either edit the expiration time or delete rules at this time.