Banned items - does the ban apply to new items only?

Some time ago you kindly fixed a bug, and that allowed us to ban user names by partial match on a given string.
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/using-jamroom/60939/banned-items-partial-profile-names

Am I right in thinking that the banned items list applies only to new items?

I am getting a lot of nuisance sign-ups (seem to be from Russia), some ending in "Ruips", which I have banned, and I've just noticed a lot of names which end in "rock".
We have some genuine users with "rock" in the name, so I don't want to add it to the banned items if it's going to cause problems for existing users.

Thanks in advance.
updated by @lornawebber: 10/12/19 04:21:41AM

If you are talking about "rock" being part of a registration email and it was banned as an email substring, then they wouldn't be able to register.
However, user 'Brock' (say) would still be able to login with his user name, but if he tried to login with his email 'brock@gmail.com' (say) I think that would fail.
Is that the scenario you are concerned about?


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

@paul thanks for your quick response.
I was talking about banning profile/user names, rather than email addresses.
I was thinking of putting "rock" on the banned list of 'profile and user names', and including partial matches (see screenshot).

I'd expect that to cause the system to reject registration of user and profile names containing 'rock'.
Are you saying that it would also prevent login of existing users/profiles with 'rock' in the username? That what concerns me. I only want to ban this pest from signing up (500 sign-ups so far), preferably without preventing existing, genuine users called rock-something from logging in. I don't mind if NEW users are prevented from creating a name with 'rock' in it.

My question was, if you ban a profile/user name, will existing profile/users that match the banned string become inaccessible?
I'm just not clear on where the ban is enforced.

Yes - If you ban a user/profile name substring, existing users with that string in their name would be affected.
I can see that being an issue for you (and others) in this situation.
I'll discuss this with the rest of the JR team later and see if there's anything that can be done.
Thanks


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

Hi guys. What was the outcome of your discussion about banning partial user names, but not retrospectively?
We are still under attack from someone who is creating lots of new accounts with names ending "rock", but as they all seem to be coming from one IP address, I have banned the IP address instead of the name.