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Originally Posted by Yellow
If you can not log in I do not thin you can see the link.
xtrememotorsports
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I think there is some confusion here.
When a member is banned from a vBulletin based message board, the system still registers their visit as them viewing the main index page of the forum. That is what you see when you check someone's member profile. That does not mean they can actually view or access anything on the forum, it just means that the system recognized their member name and is blocking their access.
Banning an IP address is a separate function from the admin page and is not implicit when a member is banned. The ban actually works off of the cookie that is stored on your local system that tells the vBulletin software who you are. So in effect, when you try to log into the system, you gain access to the main index page, the software reads the cookie that your local PC issues to it, and the vBulletin software then determines that you are banned. At that point, you get the message saying you have been banned, and don't actually view the main index page at all.
On my sites where I have had to ban people, the only time I use the IP ban is if they figure out how to bypass the cookie based ban and register anew with a false registration merely to kick up a fuss about it. But to be honest, with so many ISPs using dynamically allocated IPs, that is really only of limited value anyway. I suspect that CF has an admin who manually audits new registrations and blocks them. But even this is of limited value if the registrant isn't stupid about the registration info.
Hope that explains things a little better, so people don't start jumping to conclusions about things.