# Whenever a staff member performs an IP lookup on a user, record the action in the Logs and Screening section

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**Created:** [September 21, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whenever-a-staff-member-performs-an-ip-lookup-on-a-user-record-the-action-in-the-logs-and-screening-section/383457 "2025-09-21T20:16:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whenever-a-staff-member-performs-an-ip-lookup-on-a-user-record-the-action-in-the-logs-and-screening-section/383457/3 "2025-09-21T21:49:41Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> That “IP lookup” feature itself is not unique to Discourse, you can simply copy/paste the IP address and use a third party IP location tool.

I get that, but wouldn’t it be easily abused?

There was this one forum that was a branch to another forum (Gimkit Creative), and the owner of the other forum was secretly farming IPs to later on doxx people using alts on the Gimkit Creative forum.

The user has been long gone, anyway, and it happened last year.

> [@RGJ](#):
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> That said, it would be good to have a mechanism similar to the email address for the IP address, where it is hidden by default and has a “Show” button that logs the action.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking about.

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