I use SigmaChat as the preferred chat system for my site... They have three different versions of banning someone from the service
BAN a user by login name (or ban if a censored word appears in the user name)
BAN a users IP Address (or subnet/group)
These two are just fine - and it's what UBBT also uses.
But they also have a third level of banning someone:
BAN BY COOKIE.
Sigmachat can place a cookie on a person's computer and if that person tries to log in with that particular cookie, no matter what user name or IP address they have (static OR dynamic), as long as that cookie appears on the user's computer, they cannot sign in.
First off, I see several potential for this... Not only can you ban someone from your site, but you can be sure that they will not come back under any name or any IP address UNTIL they figure that there is a cookie on their system thats blocking them from doing so.
The next potential is being able give them a "time-out" from loging into your site by seting up an expire date for that cookie.... or not :P
There are several other things that could be done by checking if this cookie exists - like checking for multiple accounts all using the same computer (there is already a mod for this multi-account tracking on TD in the mod index).
Anyone else have interest in taking advantage of such thing?
I am just tossing this idea out for anyone who feels up to programming it - I have no clue as how to do it myself, but I do know that it can be done.
Thanks in advance for any contributions that are made to this project
