# 如何处理用户IP地址 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [2018年七月8日 16:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-with-user-ip-address/91827 "2018-07-08T16:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tyraniczar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@tyraniczar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tyraniczar)\ **Post date:** [2018年七月8日 16:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-with-user-ip-address/91827/1 "2018-07-08T16:51:12Z")
Hey all, I’m working on my Privacy Policy and I saw the section regarding storing IP addresses. What benefit do I gain by storing their IP addresses? Is it necessary for something like anti-bot measures? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [2018年七月8日 23:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-with-user-ip-address/91827/2 "2018-07-08T23:30:16Z")
Other than providing questionable demographic value I don’t think they’re important for members that are not a problem. But for spam, most definitely, at least for a while. Not that every IP used by a problem account means that every account using that IP is also a problem. But I have observed that there are problem IPs, or more correctly IP blocks eg. #-#-#-34 to #-#-#-38, that I would be amazed if any of the accounts registering from those IPs were _not_ problem accounts. Having record of those IPs can be a big help in limiting the amount of spam problems. ---
**Author:** ![tyraniczar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@tyraniczar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tyraniczar)\ **Post date:** [2018年七月9日 01:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-with-user-ip-address/91827/3 "2018-07-09T01:13:31Z")
That makes sense. Thank you