Programming advice

[AHarvey]

Hi all,

I know the basics of a few languages but not really enough to write an app, however, I now have a problem that I need to write a program for but I am unsure if it is possible.

For my job we have a program written in Java that connects to our chat servers, we can then see who is in the room and other information about them (number of bingo tickets, IP, status, birthdays etc.)

We have one member who has been banned from the site for 6 months due to causing trouble, however, despite publicly slating the site she feels the need to create multiple accounts and use the accounts of family members. We can close the multiple accounts but every time we shut the family members they just phone up and have it reopened and claim they were playing at her house

As we can view their IP's in the software, and anything I write has to work as a stand alone app not a plugin/extension for the existing chat software. Would it be possible to have a program that could search the screen for a set IP and then perform a set of actions on it? It would allow me to permanently kick her from the chat rooms making it pointless her being on site.

 

[Tetsujin]

Surely anything that's going to want to perform actions on her existence in the "system", such as kicking her from the "chatrooms", is going to need to interact with that system? So even if you could write an external thing to access the IPs, it'd need to interface to do the action?

 

[GravyMonster]

Also blocking by IP is a bit of a blunderbuss, due to ISPs giving multiple users the same IP.

 

[NickK]

Well the only other way is to report the IP/timestamp to their ISP. Then repeated trouble results in repeated abuse claims to her ISP. After 3 abuse claims just request that her ISP block her from the site and failing that contact the legal eagles.