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Tracking Submissions For Use of External Services

  • June 7, 2022
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Hello! I run an auction house for a primarily text based MMORPG that’s PG-13 with the use of Airtable. Lately, we’ve received some submissions that are clearly meme/pranks. The problem is, that some of the material that have been submitted have involved nudity and acts that are lewd.

Which breaks the rules of the auction house, as well as the MMORPG that the auction house is ran for (It’s the internet. Some players in the game are minors.). That being said, the staff for the game has asked that I grab the IP address of those that have submitted such images/content so that those users can be banned as appropriate by the game’s TOS.

Is there a way for me to discover an IP address of the form submitter or figure out whom submitted what?

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    • Vivid-Squid
    • Inspiring
    • June 7, 2022

    Hi @Mishka_Sorokin
    I am not sure if you can get an IP address of the form submitter, what if they are on a VPN?

    You could make a required field in the form that is their player ID, then check that ID against a banned list to approve the post.

    ScottWorld
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    • ScottWorld
    • Genius
    • June 7, 2022

    Your #1 best bet for this is to use Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable because it will capture everyone’s IP address who submits a form.

    You can manually review these IP addresses in Fillout, or you can automatically process these IP addresses via Fillout’s API by using Make’s Fillout integrations and creating your own automation there.

    (If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable. I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances. For example, in this video, I show how to work with Airtable arrays in Make.)

    Fillout is 100% free, and it offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to update Airtable records using a form, create custom PDF files from a form submission, accept payments on forms, pre-fetch dynamic data from an Airtable record, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a form, add a login page to your form, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

    I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

    Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

    • Mishka_Sorokin
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    • June 10, 2022

    Hi @Mishka_Sorokin
    I am not sure if you can get an IP address of the form submitter, what if they are on a VPN?

    You could make a required field in the form that is their player ID, then check that ID against a banned list to approve the post.


    If they’re on a VPN, that VPN will pop up as well in the game. While I could go ahead and create a login prompt, I also don’t want to discourage users from submitting.

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    • Moe
    • Inspiring
    • June 20, 2022

    We’ve built an advanced form for Airtable. It supports capturing the user’s IP address.

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