XF 1.3 Why does "Shared IPs" mod tool not find duplicates, but Spam Cleaner tool does?

[CTXMedia]

One of my moderators found some spam posts so used the new Shared IPs mod tool drop-down to check if this spammer had any other accounts? Nope. All clear.

She then ran the Spam Cleaner on the account and afterwards it brought up three (previously cleansed/banned) accounts that it associated with the one she'd just cleaned.

Why didn't the Shared IPs tool show these accounts?

Does the spam cleaner use a different mechanism when finding duplicate accounts or is it something to do with a lack of historical data for the new Shared IP tool?

It would just be useful to understand the differences / limits of the Shared IPs tool so that I can inform my moderator teams.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Mike]

They use the same query, though the shared IPs for moderators is hard coded at 14 days -- the spam cleaner one uses a configurable value, though it only defaults to 7 days.

 

[CTXMedia]

They use the same query, though the shared IPs for moderators is hard coded at 14 days -- the spam cleaner one uses a configurable value, though it only defaults to 7 days.

Okay, thanks Mike - that explains it. I have the spam cleaner set to far more than 14 days and the accounts it found were from mid-last year.

Are there any plans to make the Shared IPs a configurable value or perhaps link it to the spam cleaner value so mods get the same results?

 

[Allan]

They use the same query, though the shared IPs for moderators is hard coded at 14 days -- the spam cleaner one uses a configurable value, though it only defaults to 7 days.

You talk about this?



if I understand well, the shared ip on profil page public is hard coded at 14 days, and the profil page admincp at 7 days with that option above ?!

It's correct ?

PS: For more information, look this thread: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/which-difference-between.71428/

 

[Allan]

@Mike

It's correct ?

 

[Mike]

No, it's "IP Check Date Limit".

 

[Allan]

No, it's "IP Check Date Limit".

Ha ok.

How has this day is hardcoded?

 

[Mike]

That's unrelated to any of the spam cleaner options. There's no date limit on that.