I haven't turned on Threads for my community yet.
Today, I had a troll visit our site, while I was away.
They posted 20 posts, all with nasty words s p e l l e d out like that, so it wouldn't be caught in the filter.
In Classic, I first went to the CP to disable him. (He was still active)
Then, I went to a setting in Classic, called "Users last posts". Cool! There they all are, and I can click on each one, note the IP address next to it, and move them to the mod board.
Then, to be safe, I did a search on the users IP, and sure enough, found someone else registered with that same IP address, and disabled him.

Cleanup done, and investigation complete!!

So, then... I decided to try to redo this, in Threads, as sort of a drill.
What would I do?

Find the offending post, get the user name, and click on his name and "ban user"?"

OK, then, I need to find all of his posts. There is no way to do this in the CP, right? Hit the back button, and under his profile, it says, "Show all users posts." Woopsie! No IP addresses next to the post. Why not? I need those! Seems like the data base would have that info available, and I'm really missing it at this point! It's great to know their patterns. Are they doing this all from one computer, or is a group of kids wreaking havoc with one username? Is this an IP that I am familiar with? Has he tried to get on, before?

So, one by one, I click on all of his posts, and move them to the mod board. Pant, pant... <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

OK, so I'm all done with that, in theory, anyhow...

Then, I want to know if that IP address has anybody else posting from it, or registered from it.

I go to the cp show/edit users, right? Then what? I tried one thing, but the search page just stalled... I tried to be patient, but after 10 minutes, I gave up.

I'd also like to know the IP of all my banned users, to see if this guy has been banned before. I can't find an option for that, either. Can someone help? The only place I can find a list of "banned members" is in the unban list. There is no info on them, at all? No IP address? No post history? Shouldn't banned members be a group, somehow?

I really feel that listing IP numbers next to the posts on "view all posts" is extremely handy, and frankly, I don't know how you guys do any investigating, without it.

Jen