# Banned users re-signing up through proxy IPs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/banned-users-re-signing-up-through-proxy-ips/54557>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [20 Dicembre 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/banned-users-re-signing-up-through-proxy-ips/54557 "2016-12-20T14:33:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![scottfsmith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scottfsmith/32/50976_2.png) [@scottfsmith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scottfsmith)\
**Post date:** [20 Dicembre 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/banned-users-re-signing-up-through-proxy-ips/54557/1 "2016-12-20T14:33:42Z")

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We have been playing whack-a mole with a few banned users recently. Once their IP blocks were banned they switched to using proxy IPs. Now what I am having to do is manually look at the registrations and if its a server farm like Digital Ocean etc the user gets put on our internal watch list and usually ends up getting banned. I don’t see a better way of doing this, I guess I could start blocking the proxy IPs but there are zillions of proxy servers out there including many that don’t look like server farms. Has anyone else dealt with this issue?

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